Manual Re-Calculating

["Christopher E. Welton" <cwelton jumpnowusa com>]

I've been using gnumeric for some time now for several 
large spreadsheet projects. Overall, I love it. However, 
there are several features which either are in gnumeric 
already and I can't find or are not in it but would make 
life MUCH easier.

1. Most of all, I would like to know how to disable 
automatic recalculation of the spreadsheet after each cell 
change is entered. This is HUGELY PAINFUL when working on a 
large workbook. I'm thinking of something similar to the 
Excel ability to disable automatic recalculation and to 
choose iterative manual recalculation, including number of 
iterations. I see that there is a Recalculate function in 
gnumeric, but this doesn't seem to make much sense without 
a way of disabling automatic recalculation. Am I missing 
something here or is the feature just not present?

2. Having a format-painting tool similar to the paintbrush 
(?) tool in Excel would be excellent. Basically something 
to select the formatting of one or more cells and then 
apply that formatting to other cells.

Any replies, particularly to 1. would be very much 
appreciated 
-- 
Christopher E. Welton
cwelton jumpnowusa com