While it was perfectly acceptable to use straight mathematical operations in "Sheet," Symphony provided you with an impressive number of functions--over 80 in all--to work with your numbers.
Here I've used the commands on the Format menu to display the number as currency and to increase the width of the columns from their default value to accommodate the dollar sign and decimal places. As you can see, each cell contains codes indicating formatting options: C2 specifies Currency with two decimal places, and W12 specifies that the column width is set to 12 characters.
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- I've tried a number of other office suites, and Symphony Beta is the only one that opened my Excel files in perfect condition. The name might be a dinosaur, but the product is not.... (Read the rest)
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