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Gnumeric Now Supports All Excel Worksheet Functions

Posted by timothy on from the in-your-pipe-and-smoke-it dept.

unmadindu writes "The latest beta release of Gnumeric has been released. According the the developers, it is now ready and stable enough for general use and deployment, and the final 1.2.0 release will be made on September 8th. This release also marks the realization of a major milestone -- all of the worksheet functions in the U.S. version of MS Excel are now supported. I have been using 1.1.19 for quite some time now, and it is incredibly fast, and hugely improved compared to Gnumeric 1.0."

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  1. SXC ? by Ploum · · Score: 5, Interesting

    it could be very cool to support the sxc (openoffice) format. what about this ?

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    1. Re:SXC ? by KiwiSurfer · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Gnumeric 1.1.19 does support Openoffice's SXC file format. I discovered this by accident when I opened a SXC file instead of the XLS file I was going to open. The import filter isn't too bad for simple spreadsheets, but I would still use Excel's XLS fomat for transferring files between OOo and Gnumeric until the import filter improves. I think this is a positive step toward an OpenSource office enviroment to replace the present-day MS Office enviroment. - James

  2. Ironic.... by MrEnigma · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I just tried out a copy of Office 2003.

    At work I use Office 2000, and use Excel a lot, etc.

    I was previously using XP (2002) at home, and I noticed that there wasn't anything added on to Excel, or really to anything, just made it more "prettier".

    The same is true with 2003, save Outlook which has been revamped.

    It seems as MS is insisiting on keeping the same things. I know there are things here ad there that are updated, but nothing that would make you want to upgrade over 2000, and that's pretty sad.

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  3. Re:But does it work the same? by Jody+Goldberg · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I do not claim that Gnumeric supports 100% of the features in MS Excel. That will not be until version 2.0 ('aka Extend') which I'd like to see go out within the next year. The language in the release notes was very explicit

    "100% of the worksheet functions"

    That refers only to the functions callable from expressions in cells.

    The Gnumeric team has been fairly anal about never claiming to support a feature that was not complete. Our Charting engine has long been a source of pain that never quite managed to find its niche. Which is what has delayed the 1.2 release for almost a year. Our new engine is targetted explititly at supported a superset of MS Excel's charting so that, like the rest of Gnumeric, things look just right when you import from xls. I've spent time ensuring that things are practically pixel perfect given the right fonts.

    We've supported reading and writing cell comments (memos) from xls95 for years. 1.1.20 adds that capability for 97/2k/XP too. Not sure what you mean by 'graphics embedded in a cell'. Please file a bug report with more details and we can keep track of the request.