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 A screenshot of Gnumeric 1.12.9 running underUbuntu MATE | |
| Original author | Miguel de Icaza |
| Developer | The GNOME Project |
| Initial release | 31 December 2001; 24 years ago (2001-12-31) |
| Stable release | 1.12.60[1]  / 11 February 2026 |
| Preview release | None [±] |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Unix-like |
| Platform | GTK 3 |
| Type | Spreadsheet |
| License | GPL-2.0-only orGPL-3.0-only[2] |
| Website | gnumeric |
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Gnumeric is aspreadsheet program that is part of theGNOME Free Software Desktop Project. Gnumeric version 1.0 was released on 31 December 2001. Gnumeric is distributed asfree software under theGNU General Public License; it is intended to replaceproprietary spreadsheet programs likeMicrosoft Excel. Gnumeric was created and developed byMiguel de Icaza,[3] but he has since moved on to other projects. The maintainer as of 2002[update] was Jody Goldberg.[4]
Gnumeric has the ability to import and export data in several file formats, includingCSV, Microsoft Excel (write support for the more recent.xlsx format is incomplete[5]),Microsoft Works spreadsheets (.wks),[6]HTML,LaTeX,Lotus 1-2-3,OpenDocument andQuattro Pro; its native format is theGnumeric file format (.gnm or.gnumeric), anXML file compressed withgzip.[7] It includes all of thespreadsheet functions of theNorth American edition of Microsoft Excel and many functions unique to Gnumeric.[8]Pivot tables andVisual Basic for Applications macros are not yet supported.[9]
Gnumeric's accuracy has helped it to establish a niche forstatistical analysis and otherscientific tasks.[10][11] For improving the accuracy of Gnumeric, the developers are cooperating with theR Project.
Gnumeric has an interface for the creation and editing of graphs different from other spreadsheet software. For editing a graph, Gnumeric displays a window where all the elements of the graph are listed. Other spreadsheet programs typically require the user to select the individual elements of the graph in the graph itself in order to edit them.
Gnumeric has been coded mainly by Miguel de Icaza, with help from other intrepid hackers that have contributed code, bug fixes and documentation.
The most recent versions given a full analysis in this report (available without charge) are Microsoft Excel XP and Gnumeric 1.1.2, and the author has more-limited data on then-new Excel 2003.
In this journal article, after a more complete analysis of Excel 2003, McCullough concludes that Excel 2003 is an improvement over previous versions, but not enough has been done that its use for statistical purposes can be recommended
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