User Guide
241
This chapter is for designers who want to create their own
spreadsheet templates.
This chapter assumes you are already familiar with the features of Numbers described
in earlier chapters.
Designing a Template
The templates that come with Numbers provide ideas for designing the look of charts,
tables, and other objects.
To create your own templates, you can do something as simple as adding your
company logo to an existing template. Or you can modify these attributes of
a Numbers template:
Table styles Â
Reusable tables available when you click Tables in the toolbar Â
Default formatting for dierent types of charts Â
Default attributes of text boxes, shapes, and images Â
The number and names of sheets Â
Predened content on sheets, such as text, tables, and media placeholders Â
To learn how to Go to
Set up a template’s table styles “Dening Table Styles for a Custom Template” on
page 242
Create predened tables to provide in the
template
“Dening Reusable Tables for a Custom
Template” on page 242
Set up charts and other objects for the template “Dening Default Charts, Text Boxes, Shapes, and
Images for a Custom Template” on page 242
Create initial content “Creating Initial Spreadsheet Content for a
Custom Template” on page 244
Save your template “Saving a Custom Template” on page 246
12
Designing Your Own Numbers
Spreadsheet Templates