Re: Gnumeric 0.57 - comment, request, and question.

[Charles Sullivan <cwsulliv triad rr com>]

At 06:56 PM 11/08/2000 +0000, John Gill wrote:
> > However, the fact that you can't choose the "Text" data type seems weird
> > to me, probably a bug, I'll have a look at it.
>
> one other thing on formatting.  there are buttons to set the 
> format to money, %, change number of decimal places, use 
> commas.. but I haven't been able to find an easy way to put it 
> back to general format (eg 

If you select one or more columns, then click on the Format>Cell menu,
the option for General format appears in the menu.  I don't recall
trying it out but assume that it works.  (I know it works when you
click the option for Text.)
 
> > > Question: Is there any basic reason why the number of columns
> > > which can be simultaneously sorted is limited to 3?
>
> In 0.57 it appears you can sort by as many columns as you have 
> selected.  Just use the Add button.
>
> I seem to recall Excel limits you to 3, but I may be doing it an 
> injustice.

I'll try Gnumeric again to be sure, but when I tried it yesterday it
seemed like it wouldn't handle more than 3.

I don't have a full-blown EXCEL, just the stripped-down version supplied
with MS-Works.  That is limited to 3.

Regards,
Charles Sullivan