[aclug-L] Re: FW: Gnumeric for Gnumbers

["Ryan Hunt" <ryan@xxxxxxxx>]

Before I started using StarOffice 6 I gave gnumeric a try for a little
while, The excell compatability is POOR at best.. StarOffice has much better
MS Office compability than the GnomeOffice tools and for anyone needing that
compability then StarOffice is the way to go.. I haven tried OpenOffice but
I hear its as good as StarOffice..

-Ryan


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> LINUX DESKTOP APPLICATIONS --- February 07, 2002
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> HIGHLIGHTS
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> * Gnumeric brings all of Excel's functionality to the open source
>   community.
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> Gnumeric for Gnumbers
> By Eric Foster-Johnson
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> Continuing the spate of 1.0 releases (we addressed Evolution in a
> previous newsletter: http://www.itworld.com/nl/lnx_desktop/01312002),
> the spreadsheet program, Gnumeric, is now at a 1.0 release as well.
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> Gnumeric, a popular Linux spreadsheet, has been around for years in a
> series of pre-release versions. This is fairly common on Linux, where
> 1.0-level programs are rare compared to pre-release versions. Gnumeric
> looks and acts much like Microsoft Excel. The ability to import files
> created by commercial packages is crucial for a non-mainstream
>spreadsheet (such as Gnumeric) so Gnumeric imports Microsoft Excel,
>Lotus 1-2-3, XBase, and even the Psion handheld format.
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> Gnumeric also supports most of the Excel functions, making life a lot
> easier when moving from a mainstream system. The Gnumeric Web site
> (http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric) claims that Gnumeric supports
> 95 percent of all built-in Excel functions. Gnumeric also supports all
> built-in Excel number formats. In addition, Gnumeric provides a number
> of high-end functions, in areas such as number theory or financial
> derivatives that you won't find in more limited tools such as Excel.
> With the Guppi add on, available from http://www.gnome.org/guppi, you
> can create graphs and charts from data in Gnumeric.
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> You can find out more about Gnumeric at
> http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/gnumeric-1.0.0. You can download
> Gnumeric from http://download.gnome.org/GNOME/stable/sources/gnumeric.
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> Since the program name starts with that strange "g" (as opposed to the
> strange "k"), you can guess, correctly, that Gnumeric is part of the
> GNOME desktop environment. Even so, Gnumeric should run just fine on
> Linux systems running the KDE desktop.
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> In most cases, though, unless you have the latest GNOME desktop, and
> all its sundry programming libraries, installed, then you are better
> off waiting until the next release of either the full GNOME desktop or
> of your Linux distribution. That's because you can quickly get into all
> sorts of hassles with different library versions. It is much easier for
> most users to let someone else deal with the problem and release an
> integrated set of applications. Typically, your Linux distribution
> vendors, such as SuSE or Red Hat, take care of this task for you.
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> About the author(s)
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> Eric Foster-Johnson has written 14 books on Linux, Unix, programming
> and open source tools. Eric can be reached at erc@xxxxxxxxxxxx or at
> http://www.pconline.com/~erc.
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> Gnumeric and the Gnu Love of my Life
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> The Gnumeric spreadsheet
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> Gnumeric 1.0
> http://itw.itworld.com/GoNow/a14724a52071a76028222a0
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