This is a sad day for sure but it looks like I am going to have to purchase Microsoft Office for MAC. Although I really like Keynote vs Powerpoint and Pages meets my minimum needs just fine - Numbers is just not cutting the mustard. Excel, over the years, has become so much more that just a spreadsheet application. It can be argued that it is also its own development environment  and this is where the problems arise.  I simply have too many spreadsheets that require many of the enhanced capabilities of Excel such as custom controls and forms that are just not supported under Numbers. So I will be forced to switch. Yes, I am quite aware of Open Office but I do not like the fact that there is no native UI for MAC and I still believe that I will have the same problems with the spreadsheets.

DAJ