The Gnumeric Manual

Copyright © 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Miguel de Icaza, Jody Goldberg, Thomas Canty, Jukka-Pekka Iivonen, Andreas J. Guelzow, Wayne Schuller, Adrian Custer, Kevin Breit, Aaron Weber, Alexander Kirillov.

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Table of Contents

1.1. Welcome to Gnumeric

1.1.1. Getting Started Using Gnumeric.

2. Elements of the Gnumeric User Interface

2.1. Overview

3. Gnumeric Menus

3.1. Introduction to Menus

3.1.1. The Menubar
3.1.2. General Menu Behavior

3.2. The File Menu

3.3. The Edit Menu

3.4. The View Menu

3.5. The Insert Menu

3.6. The Format Menu

3.7. The Tools Menu

3.8. The Data Menu

3.9. The Help Menu

3.10. Context Menus in Gnumeric

3.10.1. The Context Menu for the Cell Grid Area
3.10.2. The Context Menu for Column and Row Headers
3.10.3. The Context Menu menu for Worksheet Tabs
3.10.4. The Context Menu for Embedded Objects and Components
3.10.5. The Context Menu for Toolbars

4. Gnumeric Toolbars

4.1. The Gnumeric Toolbars

4.1.1. General Toolbar Behavior

4.2. The Standard Toolbar

4.3. The Format Toolbar

4.4. The Object Toolbar

5. Gnumeric Data Entry area, Cell Grid and Information Area

5.1. The Elements of the Gnumeric Worksheet.

5.2. Data entry area.

5.2.1. Current Cell Indicator.
5.2.2. The Cancel Button.
5.2.3. The Confirm Button.
5.2.4. The Equals Button.

5.3. The Cell Grid

5.3.1. The Column and Row Headers.
5.3.2. The Scrollbars
5.3.3. The Tabbed Sheet Indicator

5.4. The Information Area

5.4.1. The menu hint area
5.4.2. The File Status Indicator
5.4.3. The running calculation area

6. Entering data

6.1. Strings and Numbers

6.1.1. Dates and Numbers
6.1.2. Editing of Cells
6.1.3. Editing Commands

6.2. Formulas

6.2.1. Syntax
6.2.2. Using Functions
6.2.3. Names
6.2.4. Array Formulas

6.3. Cell Referencing

6.3.1. Absolute cell referencing
6.3.2. Referencing multiple cells
6.3.3. Referencing cells on other sheets

6.4. Selecting Cells While Entering Formulas

6.4.1. Entering Data into a Formula With the Mouse
6.4.2. Entering Data into a Formula With the Keyboard

6.5. Editing Cells Using the Selection

6.5.1. Simple Selections
6.5.2. Selecting Multiple Cells
6.5.3. Discontinuous Selections
6.5.4. Keyboard Shortcuts
6.5.5. Filling a Region With the Same Text or Value

7. Copying and Moving

7.1. Copying and Moving Using Drag and Drop

7.1.1. Simple Copy and Move
7.1.2. Right Click Options
7.1.3. Right Click Options Menu

7.2. Cut, Copy and Paste

7.2.1. Cutting a Selection to the Clipboard
7.2.2. Copying a Selection to the Clipboard
7.2.3. Pasting the Clipboard
7.2.4. Paste Special
7.2.5. Cut and Paste Between Gnumeric and Other Applications

8. Autofill

8.1. Autofill Introduction

8.1.1. My First Autofill
8.1.2. Using Adjacent Columns for Autofill Length

9. Cell Formatting

9.1. Overview

9.1.1. Format Cells Dialog
9.1.2. Formatting Using the Format Toolbar

9.2. Number Formatting Tab

9.3. Alignment, Font, Border, and Background Tabs

9.3.1. Alignment Tab
9.3.2. Font Tab
9.3.3. Border Tab
9.3.4. Background Tab

9.4. Protection and Validation Tabs

9.4.1. Protection Tab
9.4.2. Validation Tab

10. Working with files

10.1. Saving Files

10.2. Opening and Importing Files

10.2.1. Opening Files
10.2.2. Importing Files

10.3. File Formats

10.3.1. Gnumeric XML File Format
10.3.2. Data Interchange Format
10.3.3. DVI TeX Format
10.3.4. MS Excel (tm) File Formats
10.3.5. Experimental Bonobo EFS Format
10.3.6. Gnome Glossary PO File Format
10.3.7. HTML File Formats
10.3.8. LaTeX 2e Format
10.3.9. Linear and Integer Program File Format
10.3.10. Plan Perfect Format
10.3.11. PDF Format
10.3.12. SC/XSpread Format
10.3.13. Text Format
10.3.14. TROFF Format

10.4. AutoSave Tool

11. Printing

11.1. Printing to a Printer or a File

11.2. Print Setup Dialog

11.2.1. Page Tab
11.2.2. Margins Tab
11.2.3. Headers and Footers Tab
11.2.4. Customizing Headers and Footers
11.2.5. Print Setup Dialog - Sheet

11.3. Print Preview

11.3.1. Menu Bar
11.3.2. Toolbar

12. Data Filters

12.1. Data Filters

12.1.1. Advanced Filter

13.1. Solver

13.1.1. Introduction to Linear Programming
13.1.2. Spreadsheet Modeling
13.1.3. Integer Programming

13.2. Goal Seek Tool

13.2.1. Using the Tool
13.2.2. Results
13.2.3. Desired Value in a Given Range

14. Data Analysis Tools

14.1. An Overview

14.2. Analysis of Variance

14.2.1. ANOVA: Single Factor Tool
14.2.2. ANOVA: Two-Factor Tool

14.3. Correlation Tool

14.4. Covariance Tool

14.5. Descriptive Statistics Tool

14.6. Forecast Tools

14.6.1. Exponential Smoothing Tool
14.6.2. Moving Average Tool

14.7. Fourier Analysis Tool

14.8. F-Test: Two-Sample for Variances Tool

14.9. Histogram Tool

14.9.1. Introduction
14.9.2. The "Input" Tab
14.9.3. The "Bins" Tab
14.9.4. The "Options" Tab
14.9.5. The "Output" Tab
14.9.6. A Histogram Example

14.10. Random Number Generation Tool

14.11. Rank and Percentile Tool

14.12. Regression Tool

14.13. Sampling Tool

14.14. Comparing Means of 2 Populations

14.14.1. t-Test: Paired Two Sample for Means Tool
14.14.2. t-Test: Two-Sample Assuming Equal Variances Tool
14.14.3. t-Test: Two-Sample Assuming Unequal Variances Tool
14.14.4. z-Test: Two Samples for Means Tool

15. Auto Correct Tool

15.1. AutoCorrect Tool

15.1.1. Correct TWo INitial CApitals
15.1.2. Capitalize first letter of sentence
15.1.3. Capitalize names of days

16. Drawing on a worksheet

17.1. Graphing in Gnumeric

17.1.1. Creating a Basic Graph
17.1.2. Advanced Graphing

18. Authors

18.1. Authors

19. License

19.1. License

20. Gnumeric Function Reference

20.1. Alphabetical List of Gnumeric Functions

A. GNU Free Documentation License

A.1. 0. PREAMBLE
A.2. 1. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
A.3. 2. VERBATIM COPYING
A.4. 3. COPYING IN QUANTITY
A.5. 4. MODIFICATIONS
A.6. 5. COMBINING DOCUMENTS
A.7. 6. COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
A.8. 7. AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
A.9. 8. TRANSLATION
A.10. 9. TERMINATION
A.11. 10. FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE
A.12. Addendum

List of Tables
9-1. Examples of Date Formats
9-2. Examples of Time Formats
18-1. Gnumeric was written by

List of Figures
1-1. An example of what Gnumeric can do.
2-1. The Gnumeric worksheet elements.
3-1. The Gnumeric menubar.
3-2. A re-arranged Gnumeric.
3-3. Gnumeric menus can be torn off.
3-4. The File menu.
3-5. The Edit menu.
3-6. The View menu.
3-7. The Insert menu.
3-8. The Format menu.
3-9. The Tools menu.
3-10. The Data menu.
3-11. The Help menu.
3-12. The Context Menu for the Cell Grid Area.
3-13. The Context Menu of a Row Header
3-14. The Context Menu.
3-15. The Context Menu
3-16. The Context Menu.
4-1. The Three Gnumeric Toolbars
4-2. The Standard Toolbar.
4-3. The Format Toolbar
4-4. The Object Toolbar
5-1. The Data Entry area.
5-2. The Current Cell Indicator.
5-3. The Cell Grid area, with cells of different sizes.
5-4. The column labels at the top of the worksheet.
5-5. The row labels at the left side of the worksheet.
5-6. The Information Display Area.
5-7. The running calculation area.
6-1. Entering Strings and Numbers
6-2. The highlighted selection
6-3. An Active cell
6-4. The active cell with the cursor
6-5. A multi-cell selection
6-6. Multiple cells being selected with the cursor
6-7. A discontinuous selection of cells.
6-8. An entire row being selected
6-9. An entire column being selected
6-10. The entire worksheet being selected
6-11. A selection of several cells
6-12. A selection of several cells, filled with the same values
7-1. The option menu for dragging a cell with right click
9-1. Format Cells Dialog
9-2. Alignment Tab
9-3. The Font Tab
9-4. Border Tab
9-5. Background Tab
9-6. Protection Tab
9-7. Validation Tab
9-8. Warning dialog in response to invalid input
10-1. File Format Selector
10-2. File Format Selector
10-3. Gnumeric Sample Screenshot
10-4. xdvi Screenshot of DVI TeX File
10-5. Mozilla Screenshot of HTML 3.2 File
10-6. Mozilla Screenshot of HTML 4.0 File
10-7. Mozilla Screenshot of HTML Fragment
10-8. xpdf Screenshot of LaTeX file
10-9. Specifying which sheets to export
10-10. Specifying line terminators
10-11. csv File
10-12. Selecting the basic format type
10-13. Separation Customization
10-14. Separation Customization With Correct Selection
10-15. Selecting Formats
10-16. Some Number Formats
10-17. Some Currency Formats
10-18. Some Date and Time Formats
10-19. Some Percentage Formats
10-20. Some Fraction Formats
10-21. Some Scientific Formats
10-22. The Text Format
10-23.
10-24. The Auto Save Tool dialog.
11-1. Print Dialog
11-2. Print Setup Dialog - Page
11-3. Print Setup Dialog - Margins
11-4. Print Dialog - Headers and Footers
11-5. Print Dialog - Customize Header/Footer
11-6. Print Setup Dialog - Sheet
11-7. Print Preview Dialog
12-1. Worksheet containing the table to be filtered and a simple criteria.
12-2. Criteria for selecting rows whose `Profit' column is between 0 and 40000.
12-3. The Advanced Filter dialog.
13-1. Linear programming example
13-2. The empty Solver dialog.
13-3. Add constraint dialog.
13-4. The solver dialog
13-5. The Solver results dialog
14-1. Data Analysis Tools
14-2. Common output options of the data analysis tools
14-3. Specifying Ranges
14-4. 1-factor ANOVA Dialog and Example Data
14-5. Output From a 1-factor ANOVA
14-6. 2-factor ANOVA Without Replication Dialog
14-7. Output From a 2-factor ANOVA Without Replication
14-8. 2-factor ANOVA With Replication Dialog
14-9. Output From a 2-factor ANOVA With Replication
14-10. Correlation Tool Dialog
14-11. Some Example Data
14-12. Completed Correlation Dialog
14-13. Correlation Tool Output
14-14. Covariance Tool Dialog
14-15. Some Example Data
14-16. Covariance Tool Output
14-17. Descriptive Statistics Tool Dialog
14-18. Some Example Data
14-19. Descriptive Statistics Tool Output
14-20. Exponential Smoothing Tool Dialog
14-21. Some Example Data for the Exponential Smoothing Tool
14-22. Exponential Smoothing Tool Output
14-23. Moving Average Tool Dialog
14-24. Some Example Data for the Moving Average Tool
14-25. Moving Averages Tool Output
14-26. Fourier Analysis Tool Dialog
14-27. Fourier Analysis Formulae
14-28. F-Test Tool Dialog
14-29. Some Example Data
14-30. F-Test Tool Output
14-31. Histogram Tool Dialog
14-32. Histogram Tool Dialog "Bins Tab"
14-33. Some Example Data
14-34. Specifying Bins
14-35. Histogram Tool Output
14-36. Random Number Generation Tool Dialog
14-37. Some Example Data for the Random Number Generation Tool
14-38. Random Number Generation Tool Output
14-39. Rank and Percentile Tool Dialog
14-40. Some Example Data for the Rank and Percentile Tool
14-41. Rank and Percentile Tool Output
14-42. Regression Tool Dialog
14-43. Regression Example Data
14-44. Completed Regression Dialog
14-45. Regression Tool Output
14-46. Sampling Tool Dialog
14-47. Some Example Data for the Sampling Tool
14-48. Sampling Tool Output
14-49. t- and z-Test Tool Dialog
14-50. t-Test (Paired) Tool Dialog Options
14-51. t-Test (Paired) Example Data
14-52. Output from the t-Test (Paired) Tool
14-53. t-Test (Equal Variances) Tool Dialog Options
14-54. t-Test (Unknown but Equal Variances) Example Data
14-55. Output from the t-Test (Unknown but Equal Variances) Tool
14-56. t-Test (Unknown and Unequal Variances) Tool Dialog Options
14-57. t-Test (Unknown and Unequal Variances) Example Data
14-58. Output from the t-Test (Unknown and Unequal Variances) Tool
14-59. z-Test Tool Dialog Options
14-60. z-Test Example Data
14-61. Output from the z-Test Tool
15-1. The Auto Correct dialog.

List of Examples
6-1. Examples of standard operators
6-2. Basic Function syntax
6-3. Some examples of function syntax
6-4. Examples of name usage
6-5. Entering an Array Formula
6-6. Some examples of function syntax
6-7. Relative References
6-8. Absolute cell referencing examples
6-9. Some examples of function syntax
6-10. Referencing blocks of cells
6-11. Referencing blocks of cells
6-12. Referencing values in other sheets
8-1. Adjacent Columns for Autofill Length Example
10-1. Saving as DVI TeX
10-2. Saving as HTML 3.2
10-3. Saving as HTML 4.0
10-4. Saving as HTML fragment
10-5. Saving as LaTeX file
10-6. Creating an ASCII File
14-1. Using the single factor ANOVA
14-2. Using the 2-factor ANOVA Without Replication Tool
14-3. Using the Correlation Tool
14-4. Using The Covariance Tool
14-5. Using the Descriptive Statistics Tool
14-6. Using the Exponential Smoothing Tool
14-7. Using the Moving Average Tool
14-8. Using the F-Test Tool
14-9. Using the Histogram Tool
14-10. Using the Random Number Generation Tool
14-11. Using the Rank and Percentile Tool
14-12. Using the Regression Tool
14-13. Using the Sampling Tool
14-14. Using the t-Test (Paired) Tool
14-15. Using the t-Test (Unknown but Equal Variances) Tool
14-16. Using the t-Test (Unknown and Unequal Variances) Tool
14-17. Using the z-Test Tool
17-1. Series Example
17-2. Name Example
17-3. Values Example
17-4. Category Labels Example

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