A free manual for the program may be obtained via Apple, with extended documentation. I thought I would share some of my notes in trying to work with it in creating knit charts. They are not intended as complete tutorials, but simply perhaps as a place to start for those owning the program. Having some familiarity with excel makes some things easier, Numbers reads Excel documents already created, will save/export files in its format as well
to create a chart: open a new document, a table will appear with wide, rectangular cells which will need to be readjusted
clicking on the square with 9 dots to the left of column A will highlight the whole sheet
the formatting bar
click on inspector (white i in blue dot) located above format bar
adjust column width and height to .4 and .4 or desired values hit return
click on the screen and a resized document will appear
drag on symbol small rectangle with 6 dots (upper right, bottom left, marked A and B) to increase # of column or rows, or copy and paste as they are needed
there are many ways to add color described in the manual in multiple contexts. For this purpose, I like to begin by creating a palette within the working table. To do so click on an individual cell, go to fill in the menu bar,
click on it, choose a color from the window that appears, select color, the cell will fill with color, having a palette within the document will save confusion, and save trips back and forth between
repeat until you have a row of chosen trial colors, same can be done with font symbols or numbers for easy access throughout the process, I have created a master document with all symbols in fonts I like to use to the left of the table, in sizes suited for the working cells, for easy copy and paste as well
copy the individual color (cell) will work with paste to place color in the design motif area, dragging the handle at the bottom right of the paste will produce single cells, rows, columns, or squares/ rectangular shapes in that color
copy and paste motif created both to change color segments, and to test motif repeat alignment
isolate final repeat for actual knitting, programming, or punching
Borders
here I miss the pencil drawing option in excel; a tutorial on border drawing Numbers, and some illustrations using the motif in the downloadable document (post1) with variations
using select, copy, paste; border markings illustrated
altering the repeat to a dropped one
brick stitch_ easy changing to visualize shifts in the pattern
