The View menu accesses commands to alter various aspects of the display interface.

Many commands on this menu are part of a pair. These commands vary according to context; for example, if the status bar were displayed, an entry on this menu would be "Hide status bar", but if the bar were not displayed, the command would read "Display status bar".

Screen snap: View pulldown menu

The View menu contains the following options:

• "Redraw All" let you refresh the display of the active spreadsheet. This can be useful to discard drawing bugs, so try it whenever something seems wrongly displayed.
   
• quot;Display/Hide Grid" let you activate or deactivate the drawing of the cell grid. The cell grid is made up of all the horizontal and vertical lines separating the cells. By default, the cell grid is not printed.
   
• "Display/Hide Frames Borders" let you activate or deactivate the drawing of the borders having a null width. It can be useful when you have to deal with several superposed transparent border-less frames and you need to view their positions. On the other hand, deactivating the displaying of the borders having a null width can give you a more realistic rendering of the printed document.
   
• "Display/Hide Status Bar" let you activate or deactivate the status bar. The status bar gives basic information on used and on functions of menu-bar buttons.
   
• "Display/Hide Columns Headers" let you activate or deactivate the drawing of the columns headers. Columns headers is made of the first line of the spreadsheet, containing the coordinates of the columns in form of letters (A, B, C ... AA, AB, ...).
   
• "Display/Hide Lines Headers" let you activate or deactivate the drawing of the lines headers. Columns headers is made of the first column of the spreadsheet, containing the coordinates of the lines in form of numbers.
   
• "Display/Hide Separators" let you activate or deactivate the drawing of the page breaks marks. Page breaks marks are made of horizontal and vertical dotted lines on some lines or columns borders, showing the paper cutout in printed sheets.
   
• "Display Formulas / Display Results" let you select between the drawing of the formulas expressions or of the formulas results.
   
• "Display/Hide Zeros" let you activate or deactivate the drawing of null results. This is useful to make cells having a null value or null formula result looks like empty cells.
   
• "Activate/Stop Magnetism" let you activate or deactivate the to cells borders' attraction for frames. Cells borders (cell grid) can be magnetic. Magnetism goes into action when you modify a frame position and the mouse pointer is attracted by magnetic lines. This can be useful when you need to deal with precise frame positioning.