In the days of publishing everything to the web, Numbers is ready. It exports html tables. What is lost is the background color and the grid lines, shadows, etc. Numbers has no problem importing an Excel spreadsheet. In order to chart an array of numbers, one simply drags a Chart container onto the spreadsheet.
Charts then prompts the user to specify the range of cells to be charted.
There are numerous three-dimensional chart types. It is simple to change such properties as lighting, transparency, position, etc., using Chart's Appearance Palette, shown in Figure 3. The use of QD3D permits effective animations of the charts. Thus, one great use of Charts is for presentation graphics. Charts presents the most common chart types.