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My question is, I know you can change the border of cells to dotted, solid or none, but is there a way to tint every other line in the spreadsheet for easier reading, or would I have to upgrade to a program like Numbers for this?
Secondly, if the non-numeric data is too long to fit in one cell, is there a way to keep it from looking like it's running into the next cell?

I used AppleWorks for years and I am not as negative as you are.
Maybe it's because I took time (which you clearly didn't) to *_read carefully Numbers User Guide_* and *_iWork Formulas and Functions User Guide_*
About the behavior of value expanding in cell to their right, Numbers and AppleWorks *_behave exactly the same way_*
For Numbers it's described in page #79 of the User Guide.
I guess that spill isn't an obscure word for an English user !
Using it as a keyword in a search quickly point to the relevant info.
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