Was "Organize" Moved from the Numbers Sidebar?

Am I mistaken or was the “Organize” item removed from the Sidebar in Numbers?

I was certain that the tabs in the Sidebar had been: Table Cell Text ¿Arrange? Organize (I’m not sure about Arrange as I never used it). Now, “Organize” is missing. I know that it’s available through the menus (View —> Inspector —> Organize), but that requires more mousing and means I have to constantly switch between “Format” and “Organize”.

Is there any way to move “Organize” back to the sidebar along with “Table”, etc.?

Maybe I’m confused. I have Numbers version 10.1 (6913). The Organize option is in the upper right corner of my window. It’s not in the sidebar, but mousing through menu options isn’t required either.

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Jack Clay

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No, you aren’t confused. I just wasn’t remembering exactly where elements had been in the window — I just knew that “Organize” had been there and then it wasn’t.

And, now I feel a bit foolish, especially since I’ve used Apple products for 35 years and I made a newbie mistake (not dissing newbies, it’s just that I generally considered myself pretty experienced). Apparently, at some point I unintentionally invoked the keystroke combination to “Hide Toolbar” (cmd-opt-T). I looked through menus trying to figure out if I had done something to hide “Organize”, but overlooked View—>Show Toolbar.

The odd thing is that in order to the Toolbar to show again, I had to invoke “Show Toolbar” on each open file. Now, however, if I invoke “Hide Toolbar”, it is hidden on all files; if I reenable “Show Toolbar”, it is shown on all files.

Anyway, mystery solved — Jack Clay saved the day by getting me to look more carefully for what I might have done wrong. Thanks, Jack.

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