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Designing Your Own Numbers
Spreadsheet Templates
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
 Reusable tables available when you click Tables in the toolbar
 Default formatting for different types of charts
 Default attributes of text boxes, shapes, and images
 The number and names of sheets
 Predefined content on sheets, such as text, tables, and media placeholders
You can also start with a blank spreadsheet and create a new template.
Step 1: Define Table Styles
A template has one or more table styles that let you format a selected table in a single
click. Table styles are useful for applying consistent formatting to tables.
You can use or redefine the table styles in a Numbers template, or you can create your
own styles. See “Using Table Styles” on page 79 to learn how.