Mac Numbers now supports LAMBDA functions and MAP

  • I genuinely enjoy using Numbers in a way that I just don’t with Excel. Probably more indicative of the level I’m using it at, but for me it fills the gap where I just want to do some quick manipulations of CSV data but not enough that it’s worth writing a script.

  • If I follow the link I am brought to extremely generic Apple support page with exactly zero indication that we are talking about the Numbers app.

    How do you determine, from this support article, the scope where it applies?

  • I've used Numbers as my todo list for about a decade now. I've tried other things, but I've always come back to it. I have a table with:

    * name

    * priority

    * DUE

    * status

    * notes

    And a formula that sorts based on due / priority. Typing "done" in status removes it with a filter.

  • I really wish Numbers was fully Excel compatible and I could get rid of this Microsoft spyware nonsense. I even bought WP Office, but even that tries to force you into their cloud drive.

    I really wish there was a fully compatible Microsoft Office that I could use across my Apple devices that doesn’t shove some random cloud solution and end up with my files spread all over the place. I would pay more to have a OneDrive less office.

  • Numbers looks wonderful, but for deep business needs it has a LONG way to go before it is at all comparable. It is great they are adding functionality, but I am curious what market segment they think they are meeting?

    We just broke down and bought a Windows based machine because MS Excel is so limited on a Mac that it was forcing our accountant into time wasting inefficiencies and general hair pulling.

  • I mostly don't use Numbers for very much because it's not easy to share and collaborate. Everyone has Excel. Everyone has Sheets. That said, I routinely use it as a first step in converting CSV and other text based delimited data. Open or paste into Numbers and it almost always does a perfect job of determining columns when Sheets and Excel choke.

  • Not caffeinated enough. I thought the title was referring to mac addresses and I was really wondering how that would work.

  • Danes: Feel free to give this bug report an upvote.

    https://discussions.apple.com/thread/256032425

  • Do they have SPLIT and JOIN also? I have long wished for those in Excel

  • Just occurred to me that I've no idea what Numbers even looks like, because it's always been hard blocked on my corporate MacBook.

  • All it's missing is a constraint solver

  • I was briefly terrified this was Lambda in the AWS sense

  • "Mac Numbers"