Staying happy with Gnumeric: finding the leading apostrophe

Posted by scrubs on Jan 17, 2012 9:08 AM EDT
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com; By Bob Mesibov
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In my previous article about GNUMeric , entering data with a leading apostrophe, as in '12/3, ensures that the 12/3 will be interpreted by Gnumeric as text, even when the cell is formatted 'General'.

But Gnumeric displays the 12/3 without the apostrophe. It's hidden. This can lead to unpleasant little surprises when sorting groups of cells, some of which contain hidden apostrophes and some of which don't.

Read the howto at Free Software Magazine.

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