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.
- 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)
[edit] 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
[edit] 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)
