What you are seeing is the Missing Value character for numeric columns. JMP uses this character intentionally. Statistics performed on a column that contains missing values, will automatically exclude those cells from the calculations.
If what you want, is to change the cells from the missing value character, into an empty(Blank) cell, you can do this by using the Column Property, Value Labels. By adding "." in as a value, and just a single space as the value to display, JMP will change the missing value symbols to blanks
Jim