Numbers App by Apple: Is It Good & Easy to Use?

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Numbers by Apple is considered a user-friendly option for data analysis in educational settings, particularly for courses like modern physics and optics labs. It is designed for Mac devices, including MacBooks and iMacs, as well as iPads. While Numbers offers similar functionalities to Excel, some users suggest considering OpenOffice as an alternative. OpenOffice provides both spreadsheet and word processing capabilities, is compatible with MS Excel, and is available for free on Mac and PC platforms.
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Hi. I was thinking about getting Numbers by apple to do data analysis for an intro to modern physics course and an optics lab. I was wondering if anybody thinks it is a good product and easy to use like most things apple?
 
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Is this for a MacBook or iMac (Mac OS) or an iPad (iOS)?
 
It is for Mac or probably apple, it is supposed to be like Excel.
 
You could instead get OpenOffice which has a spreadsheet + word processor... just like MS Office and is interoperable with MS Excel. AND its free.

http://www.openoffice.org/
 
Excuse me, for Mac and probably PC too.
 
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