# The Gnumeric Manual, version 1.2

## Welcome!

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## How to Use this Manual

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## A Quick Introduction

This chapter of the manual explains the fundamentals of spreadsheets in general and of Gnumeric in particular. The chapter attempts to help new users get started with Gnumeric and provides background for the more detailled explanations given in the rest of the manual.

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## The Elements of Gnumeric

This chapter describes all of the pieces of Gnumeric which a user can manipulate. The chapter provides explanations for each of the menus, menu entries, toolbar buttons and other elements of the graphical user interface.

This chapter has not yet been updated for the 1.2 release of Gnumeric but still describes the earlier releases. The descriptions will still be generally useful to those attempting to understand the menu entries of Gnumeric 1.2. This chapter will be updated as time permits.

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## Working with Data

This chapter explains the core functionality of Gnumeric including the basic types of data manipulated by Gnumeric, the methods of entering, manipulating and formating data, and the basic tools for analysis of these data. More advanced analysis is described in chapter-advanced-analysis.

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## Advanced Analysis

This chapter explains many of the advanced analytic tools available in Gnumeric including statistical analysis, linear algebra calculations and simulation analysis.

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## Graphics: Plots, Images and Drawings

This chapter explains how to use Gnumeric to add graphical elements to a worksheet. Data plots allow users to create charts of data in a worksheet including pie charts, bar and column charts and scatterplots. Images in standard computer formats can be added on top of a worksheet. Drawings allow users to add simple graphical elements on top of a worksheet including lines, arrows and simple polygons.

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## Managing and Viewing Worksheets

This chapter explains how to manage worksheets and manipulate the view of the worksheet contents.

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## Workbook Settings

This chapter explains the contents of a Gnumeric workbook which are not part of the worksheets. This includes several settings which apply to the workbook and are saved in the Gnumeric file. Settings which apply to the Gnumeric program itself are called `preferences' and are explained in chapter-configuring.

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## Configuring Gnumeric

This chapter explains how to change the default behaviour of Gnumeric including the startup behaviour and default locale (language and number display).

&config-overview; &config-toolbars; &config-preferences; &config-plugins; &config-localization;

## File Opening and Saving

This chapter explains how to use files in Gnumeric including how to save the current file, how to change the file format of saved files and how to open files from a different format.

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## Printing

This chapter explains how to print spreadsheets, tables and plots from Gnumeric to a printer directly or into Postscript or PDF (both are page description languages).

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## Getting Help from Other Sources

This chapter describes other sources of help which are available to users including the Gnumeric web site, the mailing list, and the internet relay chat (IRC) discussion channel. The chapter also explains how to tell the project about a problem with the program.

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## Extending Gnumeric

This chapter explains how to go about extending Gnumeric to provide extra functionality. Because Gnumeric is Free Software this is quite easy to do.

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## About Gnumeric

This chapter provides some background information on the creation and distribution of Gnumeric.

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## Function Reference

This appendix provides a list of all the functions which are currently defined in Gnumeric.

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## Keybinding Reference

This appendix lists the keyboard shortcuts which are defined by default in Gnumeric.

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