Why is Apple Numbers so Limited in Terms of Copyright Protections?

While you can hide and password protect a sheet in Excel (you mentioned "workbooks"), if you import it into Numbers it is 100% visible and unprotected. I'm sure there are other ways to do the same thing. Just saying that hiding and password protecting provides only minimal protection. It is good for keeping someone from editing something by accident but not for keeping it from prying eyes. It would be the same in Numbers. With one reference to a cell on a hidden sheet to give me a sheet and table name, I could create a table of functions to tell me all formulas in the entire table using just FORMULATEXT and IFERROR. I could replicate all tables on the hidden sheet that way.

Bardonicloud wrote:

And questions. Lets stick to the questions.

No one here in this user-to-user forum would know why Apple doesn't offer such a feature. All you can do is let them know what you'd like to see using the provided link.

Numbers is great for individual use and light collaboration.

There are better tools if you need industrial-grade security.

BTW, Numbers does not have "Workbooks." That is an Excel term.😀

SG

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