1/8/2024 0 Comments Templates for iworkAlthough I really don’t like the idea of doing my expenses in Numbers, it’s the path of least resistance for the reports I need to generate now. So why did I want a Numbers template on my phone? Expense reports. Either way, I think I’ll use the email method the next time I need to move a template. I don’t know whether the slow sync is because of iCloud itself or because I was using an unsupported method to move a file (people have been using the Mobile Documents trick for a while to get at their Photo Stream, but I don’t think Apple approves). After waiting way too long to see the file show up on my phone, I was annoyed to find that I had one more step to take, even though that step was short. The second issue wouldn’t bother me if it weren’t for the first. It’s only when you tap to open it that you get a chance to save it as a template. When it finally arrives on your phone, it’s in the list of regular files, but with a ruler along the bottom of the icon. The template doesn’t start out as a template file. This may be unique to my setup, and because it’s iCloud, the alignment of the planets may have played a role, but if you want to move a template over and get started working on it right away, the email method is faster. It took more than an hour for the template file to sync to my phone. I’ve tried this, and it does work, but there are two things I don’t like about it: It’ll be in the My Templates sections, way down at the bottom of the template selection Alt: copy template to ~/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~Numbers/Documents/ and open it directly in iOS Numbers. Tap the Add button and your template will be on your iOS device, ready to go. When you do, Numbers will launch and you’ll see a screen that looks like this: Somewhere on the sheet will be a choice to open it in Numbers. You’ll get the usual sheet asking you what you want to do with it. Open the email on your phone or iPad and tap the attachment. Select the one you want on your iOS device and attach it to an email to yourself. Open that package and work your way through the subfolders like this: Now there’s a package named in your ~/Library/Containers folder. They used to be in ~/Library/Application Support/iWork/Numbers/Templates, but that’s been changed. You have to copy them over.įirst, you have to find templates on your Mac. New or altered templates that you make on your Mac don’t automatically propagate to your iPhone or iPad. 1 Although the Mac and iOS versions of Numbers come with the same set of templates, they aren’t shared. You might think that with the new Numbers, your templates would be stored in iCloud and just automatically available on every device. Say you have a Numbers template file on your Mac and you want to use it on your iPhone. I’ll get to the motivations for this post later let’s cut to the chase. Next post Previous post Copying Numbers templates to iOS
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