Talk:Gnumeric

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''Gnumeric has the ability to import and export data in several spreadsheet formats, including Excel, XML, HTML, Applix, Quattro Pro, PlanPerfect, Sylk, DIF (Document Interchange Format), Oleo, SC, StarOffice, and Lotus 1-2-3. Its native format is XML, compressed with gzip.''

Excel is application, not format; XML is data containment format, not application; HTML is markup language, neither application nor generic data container as XML - please, get your wording consistent.
 * Fair criticism. But MS calls files with an XLS extension the "Excel format."  Both XML and HTML tend to refer to both the markup language and the file format. I'll change it to "file formats, as suggested by Liblamb - Karnesky 07:32, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Other popular spreadsheet programs are limited to 256 columns but special versions of Gnumeric can be compiled from source code that allow spreadsheets with in excess of 256 columns.

Quattro Pro is has 18+ thousands colums. How big is "excess"?
 * As much as memory allows. Ditto for rows. - Karnesky 07:32, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

''Gnumeric includes all the spreadsheet functions of the North American version of Microsoft Excel and many more functions unique to Gnumeric. Pivot Tables are not yet supported but are planned for future versions.''

Is this "all functions" as in "all with full fidelity" or as in "with the same names"? What's the point of speculating about future versions?
 * Not sure I understand this. You can use any function you can write in an Excel cell in Gnumeric.  They aren't functionally-compatible, as Gnumeric has fixed some of the statistical functions which are broken in Excel - Karnesky 07:32, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Easy: do functions with the same names accept the same parameters and return the same results as Excel functions? This page claims that for 95% of functions only basic testing was performed. Pretty lacking for "supports all Excel functions" claim.
 * This depends on what `basic' testing means. In the Gnumeric documentation, it stands for `non-exhaustive'. To `return the same result as Excel' is often impossible since even different versions of Excel return different results. See for example MS Office Blog. Aguelzow (talk) 16:51, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
 * According to recent changes Gnumeric still has a lot to improve in compatibility with Excel functions.


 * Please edit the article and correct the info you can. Rather than "several spreadsheet formats" would "several file types" be consistent?  What is the correct wording? Liblamb 5 July 2005 18:45 (UTC)
 * That sounds good to me - Karnesky 07:32, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

beta version
Criticizing a still-in-beta development version (1.5.90) as unstable, is it fair (or even redundant) to be posted here in Wikipedia? I think beta software is expected to have problems and bugs in general. -Zero0w Feb 11, 2006


 * I removed the unstable comment on 1.5.90 version. Considering:
 * Wikipedia is not bugzilla.
 * Any beta software is expected to have bugs and problems
 * As a newer version from the 1.6.x stable branch was released, I suggest doing some testing on the new version to be accurate and up-to-date about the latest status on the stability issue. -Zero0w Feb 12, 2006

Gnumeric vs. Calc
How does Gnumeric compare to Calc, in terms of interoperability with Excel? Some people using Calc have some problems, going back and forth with Excel, with formatting.-69.87.194.251 18:33, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

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 * I had unlinked image so it can be safely deleted (as if someone cares) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.49.18.203 (talk) 04:25, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Graphing interface
The longer i use gnumeric the more i am impressed with its graphing capabilities and the graphing interface. I did not yet use the latest version of excel, but in the versions i have used until now you had to click on the various items in the graph if you wanted to configure them. OO Calc is using the same system. Gnumeric, on the other hand, has this nice dialog, where all the options are easily available, and it is very easy to add extra Data Series, Trend lines etc. I find this approach very comfortable, and noteworthy because seemingly the competition is still stuck in their "old" interface. Is this as innovative as i feel it is? Then i guess a sentence or two should be included about it. 88.65.127.176 19:52, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

"part of the GNOME desktop"
We read:


 * Gnumeric is a free spreadsheet program that is part of the GNOME desktop and has Windows installers available.

I wonder what this means.

Gnumeric didn't come on my Ubuntu-"preinstalled" little Dell. I installed it. I've also installed it on a Kubuntu, a OS X and a Vista machine. Installing on any of these is (thanks to others who have done the donkeywork for us) pretty much a no-brainer (and about equally so). When it's installed, it seems no more Gnomey than it seems OSXey.

I hesitate to reword this because I fear that it might have some meaning that has so far eluded me. If it does need rewording, it should be reworded in Spreadsheet too. -- Hoary (talk) 10:30, 31 July 2009 (UTC)


 * I'd agree. I probably use Gnumeric more on my Windows computer at work than I do elsewhere. Perhaps the phrase was historic, but is no longer valid. + m t  15:06, 31 July 2009 (UTC)


 * I had reworded it to accentuate that Gnumeric is targeted to primary GNOME platform, *nix. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.49.18.203 (talk) 04:28, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

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1.12.39 available
14.03.2018 See http://gnumeric.org/announcements/1.12/gnumeric-1.12.39.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.90.228.17 (talk) 18:05, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

WSL at Windows a way to run actual Gnumeric on windows
WSL Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux

Windows Subsystem for Linux 2A02:6D40:34DA:FD01:20A8:DEAA:BFCC:A594 (talk) 00:52, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
 * And...? How is that relevant to the article? I can run VisiCalc in MAME on FreeBSD. That doesn't mean it's useful or noteworthy. inclusivedisjunction (talk) 02:47, 9 January 2023 (UTC)