User Guide

Chapter 8 Working with Text 169
4 Click an item in the list on the left to see the characters that are available in
each category.
5 Double-click the character or symbol on the right that you want to insert into your
spreadsheet, or select the character and click Insert.
If the character doesn’t appear in your spreadsheet, Numbers may not support that
character.
Using Smart Quotes
Smart quotes are opening and closing quotation marks that are curly; the opening
quotation marks are dierent from the closing marks. When you don’t use smart
quotes, the marks are straight and the opening and closing marks don’t dier.
Smart Quotes
Straight Quotes
To use smart quotes:
Choose Numbers > Preferences, click Auto-Correction, and then select “Use smart m
quotes.”
Using Advanced Typography Features
Some fonts, such as Zapno and Hoeer, have advanced typography features that
let you create dierent eects. If you are using a font in a text box that has dierent
typography eects available, you can change many of the eects in the Font submenu
of the Format menu. For example, you may be able to adjust the following:
 Tracking: Place characters closer together or farther apart.
 Ligature: Use or leave out stylish ourishes between letters or at the end or
beginning of lines that combine two or more text characters into one glyph.
Ligature not used
Ligature used
In the Ligature submenu, choose Use Default to use ligature settings specied in the
Typography window for the font you’re using. Choose Use None to turn o ligatures
for selected text, or choose Use All to turn on additional ligatures for the selected
text.
Advanced typography features are available in the Typography window.
To open the Typography window:
1 Click Fonts in the toolbar.
2 In the Fonts window, choose Typography from the Action pop-up menu (in the lower-
left corner).