In Pages 5 (2013) you enter a formula (Insert > Function > Formula Editor) and click on the other table, and a table reference (usually something like "Table 1::A1:A2" will be added automatically.
However an imported Word document with referenced tables does not get converted properly. If you import that document to Pages, you will see that the cross reference is removed. How to do it in MS Word is described in MS Office help. It is not that easy, but you enter formulas from the Table menu and you have to add bookmarks to tables to be able to reference them.
In Pages 4.3 or earlier, this does not seem possible - not even using Applescript. If you open the Applescript dictionary for tables in 4.3, you can see that a table has no properties that are not also properties of graphics. This unfortunately means that a table works like a black box, whose content cannot be reached by the outside world.
However an imported Word document with referenced tables does not get converted properly. If you import that document to Pages, you will see that the cross reference is removed. How to do it in MS Word is described in MS Office help. It is not that easy, but you enter formulas from the Table menu and you have to add bookmarks to tables to be able to reference them.
In Pages 4.3 or earlier, this does not seem possible - not even using Applescript. If you open the Applescript dictionary for tables in 4.3, you can see that a table has no properties that are not also properties of graphics. This unfortunately means that a table works like a black box, whose content cannot be reached by the outside world.
1 comment:
That makes me sad. C'mon Apple!
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