1 Gnumeric -- The GNOME spreadsheet
2 Jody Goldberg <jody@gnome.org>
4 The project aims to become a drop in replacement for proprietary spreadsheets.
5 If you are interested in contributing to its development please send us some
6 email, there are lots of projects available.
8 To report Gnumeric bugs, please visit bugzilla.gnome.org.
10 Gnumeric is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL included in the
16 You need: Debian package name
17 glib >= 2.38.0 libglib2.0-dev
18 gtk+ >= 3.8.7 libgtk3.0-dev
19 libgsf >= 1.14.24 libgsf-1-dev
20 libgoffice >= 0.10.9 libgoffice-0-8-dev
21 gnome-xml >= 2.4.12 libxml2-dev
22 pango >= 1.24.0 libpango1.0-dev
23 NOTE: gnome-xml is also known as libxml
26 python >= 2.0 python-dev
27 pygobject >= 3.0.0 python-gi-dev
29 The GDA plugin, for accessing databases
30 gda >= 1.3.0 libgda2-dev
31 libgnomedb >= 1.3.0 libgnomedb2-dev
34 guile >= 1.5 (no maintainer)
42 There is a mailing list used to discuss Gnumeric, to subscribe
45 gnumeric-list-request@gnome.org
47 And in the body of the message write "subscribe"
49 An archive of the mailing lists is available in:
51 http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnumeric-list/
57 This is a partial list of Features implemented in Gnumeric, we need
58 documentation for these:
61 Number autofill (computes delta, autofills from that).
62 String autofill (daynames, months are built in).
63 String+Number combo integer autofill.
66 - Drag and drop selection
67 Select an area and use the border to drag the
68 contents (shift/control/alt are modifiers to copy
72 - Multiple selections are supported, hold down control
73 key to augment the existing selection (they can be
77 Use return/tab and shift-return/shift-tab to capture
78 information in a selection.
80 - Fill quickly a region with the same text: just enter
81 the text in a selection and press control-enter.
84 - The formatting of numbers is very powerful, we
85 emulate the Excel number formatting specification.
87 - Format rules: you can use rules to specify which
90 - Format colors: you can specify a color to format
93 - Conditional colours and format strings.
96 - Drag the column/row division to adjust the column
99 - To make changes to various columns/rows
100 simultaneously, select the columns and then change
101 the dimension of one of them.
108 - MS OfficeOpenXML Read/Write
109 - MS Excel (95 -> 2003) Read/Write
110 - MS Excel (v2 -> v4) Read
111 - Applix (v4 & v5) Read
112 - Quattro Pro (v1-v3) Read
115 - OpenOffice.org/ODF Read/Write
116 - html (3.2 & 4.0) Read
117 - html (4.0, xhtml) Write
124 - MPS Optimizer files Read
126 - Text files Read/Write
127 - CSV, TSV Read/Write
130 - To edit the contents of a cell that already has a value,
133 - When typing a formula, you can use the cursor keys to select
134 a cell or a cell range in the expression. This will only
135 work if a cell name is valid at the cursor point.
137 To specify a cell range, just move to the start of the cell
138 range and then hold down the shift key while making the size
139 of the selection cursor bigger.
141 - An expression is evaluated constantly on top of the current
142 selection. There is a number of pre-defined auto-compute
143 expressions, you can change this by right clicking on this
144 expression (it is on the bottom right corner).
146 - If you drag a selection with button 3 instead of button one
147 there is no default action, rather, a menu pops up with
148 a list of possible options on actions to perform.
150 - Gnumeric distinguishes regular text from formulas by preceding
151 formulas with an equal sign. So to enter an expression you have
152 to enter for example: =1+2.
154 - Control-A selects all.
155 - Alt-Space selects the row.
156 - Control-Space selects a column.
158 - Selection-keys + control extend the selection to boundary of
161 - Shift-Backspace: Collapses selection to active cell.
163 - Home: move to the beginning of the row.
165 - Control-Home: move to the cell A1
167 - Control-Enter: copies current edit text to the selected range.
169 - Control-Shift-Enter: If there is a single range selected and the
170 current edit text is a formula, the formula is made into an
173 - Control-Pg{Up,Down}: Switch to the previous/next worksheet.
174 - Alt-Pg{Up,Down}: Page left and right.
175 - Mouse-Wheel : scroll up/down
176 - Alt-Mouse-Wheel : scroll left-right
179 o Frozen Panes (including Horizontal or Vertical only)
181 o Auto-convert-on-input features: When you enter text in Gnumeric
182 it is now matched against the known formats of Gnumeric and if
183 possible, converted to a (number, format) pair. This works
184 when you enter a formula and when you type in text.
186 This means you can use now dates and times in expressions, like
187 this: ="10-Jan"+45. However, just because you can does not
188 mean you should! If you send a spreadsheet like this to someone
189 else whose computer is set to a different locale, then there
190 is no guarantee that the string will be interpreted in the
193 Autofill will also work on this.