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Why does Garmin hate steps???

I walk, after a walk I like to download the info into a spreadsheet that gives me a load of metrics.
One of the bits of info I need is how many steps I took.
Unfortunately Garmin don't like to apply me to see this info. Yes I can see how many steps I've done in a day but not per activity.
Yes I know I can go to the OLD Garmin Connect page but how long will this be around for?
In the all activity page on NEW Connect i can choose from 12 different stats including 'average stride length' but not how many steps.

On my Vivoactive 3 steps are only seen on the first widget page but if I look at my historic activities no steps stats :(

Garmin --- Please allow me to see how many steps I've taken on a walk.

0 Former Member over 7 years ago

Interesting, I had not noticed that before. I had to go look at my history, and the number of steps is not listed. I wonder if there is a datafield that could fix this.

0 svacher over 7 years ago

Interesting, I had not noticed that before. I had to go look at my history, and the number of steps is not listed. I wonder if there is a datafield that could fix this.

There really should be, you can see average stride length but not how many strides you took...

0 jfw2012 over 7 years ago

You have Average Stride Length = Distance / #number of steps. Since you have two of these = distance, and average stride length then you can calculate the number of steps. as

# of steps = distance walked / average stride length.

That should be an straight forward calculation in your spread sheet.

0 Former Member over 7 years ago

jfw,
True, but if the # of steps is not listed for the activity it becomes a little bit harder to figure.

0 svacher over 7 years ago

You have Average Stride Length = Distance / #number of steps. Since you have two of these = distance, and average stride length then you can calculate the number of steps. as

# of steps = distance walked / average stride length.

That should be an straight forward calculation in your spread sheet.

True enough but as all the Garmin devices record and store steps would it not be easier for that metric to be displayed???