title: How to change the format of the numbers displayed on an axis in a MATLAB plot?
body: <p>I actually have 3 questions:</p>
  
  <p>I have a plot with data that is in the thousands and my plot's axis is diplaying the tick marks as .4  .8  1.0  1.2  and a *10^4 in the lower right. This is a little annoying. </p>
  
  <p>Besides dividing my data by 1000 or hardcodig the tick marks is there a way to change to tick marks from .4*10^4 TO 4000?</p>
  
  <p>Seems like this should be trivial but aftter browsing through all of the figure's properties I can't seem to get an where.</p>
  
  <p>And...once I get 4000 to apear instead of .4*10^4 is there a way to rotate the tick mark label so it is not overlapping the other labels.</p>
  
  <p>And..how do you set how many "major" tick marks there are?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks so much!</p>
  
  <p>ME</p>