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You miss the point, both Lotus Improv and Excel are an (pseudo-)endless wall of cells.

Numbers puts bounded tables on a page[0][1] instead of fitting the pages (and everything, really) into an endless table dating from Multiplan, thus solving the "hacking the cells to implement layout" problem. In this example[2] a table is actually selected, and allows for south, east and south-east extension.

[0]: http://www.file-extensions.org/imgs/app-picture/3615/iwork-n...

[1]: http://maymay.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/example-bu...

[2]: http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1400/1050927588_8765bb65a6.jp...




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