Number formats, currencies and dates

Papr reads what you type. 1234.5 is a number. $1,200 is an amount in dollars, and the cell gets a currency format. 50% is a percentage, stored as 0.5. A date such as 2026-10-13 is stored as a date and shows in your browser’s short date style, here 10/13/2026. Anything else, such as 5garbage, stays as text.

Select the cells, then open the Number menu. It lists General, Number, Currency, Percent, Date, Time and Date & time. Below them, the menu lists currencies such as USD - US dollar and EUR - Euro.

Select the numbers, then click Increase Decimal to show one more digit after the point, or Decrease Decimal to show one fewer. The buttons count from the digits the cells show now. Each click is one step you can undo.

Select the amounts, open the Number menu and choose a currency. The amounts show the currency’s sign, with the usual number of decimal places for it, two for dollars. Choosing a format sets the decimal places back to the format’s own, so change the decimal places after you choose the currency.

A date is stored as the number of days since a fixed starting day, so it can be subtracted from another date. The cell shows it in your browser’s short date style, and the formula bar shows the same text. The TODAY() function gives the current date in your own time zone.