Column 

Button: 

To define the formatting of the selected column(s) select Column in the Format  menu. 

When you select the option Text format, all cells in this column will be treated as text, even when a number 

or formula is entered.  The cells will be displayed exactly as entered.  This option is particularly useful 

when the column contains text data that should not be interpreted as a number, e.g. dates: 

05/07/1956  will be displayed as such, not as 0.0003652 

You can define the column's width or number of decimals or both, and you can select whether labels or 

text should be centered or left or right justified in the column (default is right justified). 

To store the new column settings select the 

OK

 button. 

After you have specified a specific width or number of decimals for a column, then changing the global 

width or global number of decimals (in the Format spreadsheet dialog box, p. 35) will have no effect on the 

cells of this column.  To reset the width and/or number of decimals of a column to the global width and/or 

global number of decimals, you blank the corresponding input fields by pressing the Backspace key 

repeatedly, and select the 

OK

 button. 

Format graph 

Button: 

Use this command to select different formatting options for the top graph window.  Graph formatting is 

described on page 11. 

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