Introducing charts – Apple iWork '08 User Manual

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Chapter 2

Getting Started with Numbers

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Click the cell containing the text Length in Months.

When you click the small arrow that appears, a pop-up menu opens. The pop-up

menu is one kind of cell control. Cell controls provide a way to control the data that a

cell can contain. In the case of a pop-up menu, the cell can contain only one of the

items in the menu.

You’ll learn later how to add different kinds of cell controls—such as checkboxes and

sliders—to a cell.

Introducing Charts

Charts provide a graphical way to display table data. In the template you’re

working with, the Monthly Payments chart shows some of the data in the Loan

Comparison table.

Click this arrow.

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