To reproduce: - open the attached tiebreaker-v1.gnumeric file - you shoiuld see what's shown in tiebreaker-v1.png - click on K12 (containing the number 8) - Ctrl-C - select B5:AS14 - Edit / Paste Special / Add / OK - Ctrl-Z N ow, most numbers appear in a smaller font, as shown in tiebreaker-v1-bad.png