Recent content by Ian Bond

Hehehe! Off topic, but ... Ummmmm .... and OpenOffice or Libre Office exceeds anything from Micro$haft. I have yet to find the limits of these suites. No work-arounds, guaranteed. Both open and save documents in propriety M$ formats, or Open Document formats, and save to PDF. You'll also...

Thanks for comments, Twerppoet. Bugger! Sorry - my mistake - I left out "mini" - it's an iPad Mini 2. But, either way, yes - the poor old Mini 2 is really struggling with Numbers. I agree Numbers is a VERY powerful bit of spreadsheet app and I couldn't find anything in the App Store that came...

Just in case anyone's interested ... re super slow Numbers ... Removed the graph and all hidden columns (no longer needed). While scrolling the spreadsheet around is still jerky, but nowhere as bad as previously. Looks like Numbers is pushing iPad 2 to its limits?

Thanks J.A. for reply and info. A bit naughty of me, I guess, to not explain fully. The Mini was my partner's and, so we could both access the same apps and data, we kept everything in her account. So, your explanation now makes sense to me as to how stuff was already on the iCloud. I forgot...

Thanks for suggestions BikeFlagAZ and alexm1 - is appreciated. Yes, done a number of hard resets, alexm1, and the Numbers continued behaving badly - well - not at all actually. :-( Data was already backed up to iCloud, presumably initiated by previous owner? Deleted and re-installed Numbers...

G'day from Australia. New to forum. My device usage spreads across PC, Android & Mac. I'm an iPad Mini user, NOT a guru! BACKGROUND I was bequeathed this (older) iPad Mini 2 Ipad Mini 2 - Model No ME828X/A | iOS 12.4.5 | Numbers v5.2.1 As far as I know everything is up to date. As far as...