Shapes/Text Box in NUMBERS still moves when printed

I have arranged text boxes as comments to some cells in my spreadsheet, but in page/print preview, the text boxes moves to different cells. It is 2025 with multiple OS upgrades, why do we still have this issue. PLEASE HELP.

MacBook Pro 13″

Posted on Jul 13, 2025 1:18 PM

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Posted on Jul 13, 2025 8:00 PM

Is this happening on a single-page printout or is this a long table and are they correct on the first page but start getting misplaced on the 2nd, 3rd, and following pages? There is a long-standing printing bug when a header row is repeated at the top of the table on every page. For each repeated header row, the table gets misplaced downward one row (per page) from what you see when not printing. So if you have one repeated header row, a shape that had been aligned with the table will be off by one row on the 2nd sheet, by two rows on the 3rd sheet, etc. This bug was first mentioned here in April 2023 and I entered a bug report with Apple back then. It has been unfixed for over two years.


If it is not the bug I mentioned above, tell us more about what is happening and how to create the problem.

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Jul 13, 2025 8:00 PM in response to littlemisspoie

Is this happening on a single-page printout or is this a long table and are they correct on the first page but start getting misplaced on the 2nd, 3rd, and following pages? There is a long-standing printing bug when a header row is repeated at the top of the table on every page. For each repeated header row, the table gets misplaced downward one row (per page) from what you see when not printing. So if you have one repeated header row, a shape that had been aligned with the table will be off by one row on the 2nd sheet, by two rows on the 3rd sheet, etc. This bug was first mentioned here in April 2023 and I entered a bug report with Apple back then. It has been unfixed for over two years.


If it is not the bug I mentioned above, tell us more about what is happening and how to create the problem.

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Shapes/Text Box in NUMBERS still moves when printed

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