--- loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Spreadsheet_HowTo.tex	2006/08/08 17:47:27	1.3
+++ loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Spreadsheet_HowTo.tex	2016/01/03 04:49:30	1.6
@@ -2,19 +2,21 @@
 
 \textbf{Summing up columns}
 
-To take the sum of column ``M'', for example, use \texttt{\&SUM(``M*'')}\index{SUM}
+To take the sum of column M, for example, use \texttt{\&SUM(`M*')}\index{SUM}
 
+\noindent
 \textbf{Spreadsheet Lists}
+
 When you have a list of numbers in a cell, how it is displayed depends
 on how you separate the numbers and how Perl interprets the results.
 
-\textbf{35 45 12} will not generate any result because this is an
+\texttt{35 45 12} will not generate any result because this is an
 invalid Perl statement.
 
-\textbf{35,45,12} will have a result of 12 because Perl has a comma
+\texttt{35,45,12} will have a result of 12 because Perl has a comma
 operator similar to the comma operator\index{comma operator} in C.
 
 The comma operator is binary and returns the value on its right. Thus
 \texttt{\$variable = 15, 26;} assigns \texttt{\$variable} the value
-26.  If you need the values to all be displayed, enclose the entire
+26.  If you need the values to all be displayed as a string, enclose the entire
 cell contents in quote marks.