uitable doesn't (well, the underlying table display doesn't either) have the ability to set a specific format string by column, unfortunately, and the choices available (and way MATLAB uses the ones that are) are quite limited with the format function.
I see only two choices, neither particularly palatable--
- format bank, format compact
- write the values to strings with compose and '%.1f'
The first will display everything with two decimal digits, including integers and numbers <0.01 so that may not be at all acceptable for the given purpose while the second requires physically converting the numeric values to/from strings to display.
AFAIK, there is no other way to set a specific format...
