Gnumeric -- The GNOME spreadsheet Jody Goldberg <jody@gnome.org> The project aims to become a drop in replacement for proprietary spreadsheets. If you are interested in contributing to its development please send us some email, there are lots of projects available. To report Gnumeric bugs, please visit bugzilla.gnome.org. Gnumeric is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL included in the file COPYING. Requirements ------------ You need: Debian package name glib >= 2.28.0 libglib2.0-dev gtk+ >= 3.2.0 libgtk3.0-dev libgsf >= 1.14.24 libgsf-1-dev libgoffice >= 0.10.1 libgoffice-0-8-dev gnome-xml >= 2.4.12 libxml2-dev pango >= 1.24.0 libpango1.0-dev NOTE: gnome-xml is also known as libxml Optionally: python >= 2.0 python-dev pygobject >= 3.0.0 python-gi-dev The GDA plugin, for accessing databases gda >= 1.3.0 libgda2-dev libgnomedb >= 1.3.0 libgnomedb2-dev Currently disabled: guile >= 1.5 (no maintainer) Runtime suggestions: 'yelp' for help Mailing lists ------------- There is a mailing list used to discuss Gnumeric, to subscribe send a mail to: gnumeric-list-request@gnome.org And in the body of the message write "subscribe" An archive of the mailing lists is available in: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnumeric-list/ Random notes: ------------- This is a partial list of Features implemented in Gnumeric, we need documentation for these: - Autofill Number autofill (computes delta, autofills from that). String autofill (daynames, months are built in). String+Number combo integer autofill. Formula autofill. - Drag and drop selection Select an area and use the border to drag the contents (shift/control/alt are modifiers to copy or move) - Selection - Multiple selections are supported, hold down control key to augment the existing selection (they can be discontinuous). - Walking selection. Use return/tab and shift-return/shift-tab to capture information in a selection. - Fill quickly a region with the same text: just enter the text in a selection and press control-enter. - Number formatting - The formatting of numbers is very powerful, we emulate the Excel number formatting specification. - Format rules: you can use rules to specify which format to use. - Format colors: you can specify a color to format with in the format. - Conditional colours and format strings. - Column/Row resizing - Drag the column/row division to adjust the column and row dimensions. - To make changes to various columns/rows simultaneously, select the columns and then change the dimension of one of them. - Content - Merged Cells - Array formulas - Filters - MS OfficeOpenXML Read/Write - MS Excel (95 -> 2003) Read/Write - MS Excel (v2 -> v4) Read - Applix (v4 & v5) Read - Quattro Pro (v1-v3) Read - Planperfect Read - Lotus (wk1) Read - OpenOffice.org/ODF Read/Write - html (3.2 & 4.0) Read - html (4.0, xhtml) Write - Latex Write - Troff Write - DIF Read - SYLK Read/Write - Oleo Read - SC Read - MPS Optimizer files Read - XBase db Read - Text files Read/Write - CSV, TSV Read/Write - PSION Read - To edit the contents of a cell that already has a value, press F2 key. - When typing a formula, you can use the cursor keys to select a cell or a cell range in the expression. This will only work if a cell name is valid at the cursor point. To specify a cell range, just move to the start of the cell range and then hold down the shift key while making the size of the selection cursor bigger. - An expression is evaluated constantly on top of the current selection. There is a number of pre-defined auto-compute expressions, you can change this by right clicking on this expression (it is on the bottom right corner). - If you drag a selection with button 3 instead of button one there is no default action, rather, a menu pops up with a list of possible options on actions to perform. - Gnumeric distinguishes regular text from formulas by preceding formulas with an equal sign. So to enter an expression you have to enter for example: =1+2. - Control-A selects all. - Alt-Space selects the row. - Control-Space selects a column. - Selection-keys + control extend the selection to boundary of worksheet. - Shift-Backspace: Collapses selection to active cell. - Home: move to the beginning of the row. - Control-Home: move to the cell A1 - Control-Enter: copies current edit text to the selected range. - Control-Shift-Enter: If there is a single range selected and the current edit text is a formula, the formula is made into an 'array-formula'. - Control-Pg{Up,Down}: Switch to the previous/next worksheet. - Alt-Pg{Up,Down}: Page left and right. - Mouse-Wheel : scroll up/down - Alt-Mouse-Wheel : scroll left-right - Arrow+ScrollLock o Frozen Panes (including Horizontal or Vertical only) o Auto-convert-on-input features: When you enter text in Gnumeric it is now matched against the known formats of Gnumeric and if possible, converted to a (number, format) pair. This works when you enter a formula and when you type in text. This means you can use now dates and times in expressions, like this: ="10-Jan"+45. However, just because you can does not mean you should! If you send a spreadsheet like this to someone else whose computer is set to a different locale, then there is no guarantee that the string will be interpreted in the same way. Autofill will also work on this.
