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Re: SetOptions[TableForm] doesn't seem to work?

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• Subject: [mg89313] Re: SetOptions[TableForm] doesn't seem to work?
• From: Helen Read <read at math.uvm.edu>
• Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 00:43:45 -0400 (EDT)
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AES wrote:
> Thanks for replies from David Park and Helen Read, and I'll set to work 
> learning Grid.
> 
> But to respond in defense of TableForm, there are many occasions when 
> one is not formatting material for printing or distribution, instead one 
> is doing an initial analysis and just wants to get a quick one-shot 
> picture of how some expression is going to behave, or test some function 
> one is coding.
> 
> In that case, what could be simpler, quicker, terser, and easier to 
> remember than
> 
>    Table[---table contents---]  //  TableForm

Table[   ]//Grid

will also do it.

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Helen Read
University of Vermont