[libreoffice-users] I have to ask (four qustions)

Using LibreOffice 3.3.1 (Linux).

1. Why is the default column width in Calc 2.27 cm?
Where does that number come from? How do I change
it? I haven't used Excel in years, but I believe
that is easy to set in the options. Even resetting
the column width in the default style doesn't
change the "default value" (and when I did that,
the columns in the template I saved were wider than
the columns in a new spreadsheet based on that same
template, even though both of them showed the exact
same column width when examined).

2. I sometimes need to work in cm, and sometimes in
inches. How do I change from one to the other?
Again, I recall that this was easy to set in Excel.

3. How do I get hidden ("dot" directories) to appear
in the open and save dialog boxes (they appear in
all of the window manager dialog boxes)?

4. Why is it so !@#$%^&* hard to format cells (this
has continued from OpenOffice)? I was trying to set
up a spreadsheet so that all cells displayed two
decimal places, except for the top row and column
(headers, which should display no decimal places).
Click the upper left corner and change to two
decimal places. Good. Click column A and change to
General. Good. Click row 1 and change to general.
DOESN'T WORK. It SAYS General, but I still see two
decimal places (it seems to only look at cell A1).
Tried selecting and tabbing to a different cell in
the row. Still doesn't work. Didn't anyone ever
consider the possibility that a user might want to
set the same format for a range of cells that
currently have different formats. Automatic in Excel
(I remember that one for sure). Things like this
should be the easiest things in the world to do,
instead of such a massive struggle.

Nuzhna

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