Gnumeric's user manual

Copyright © 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 by Miguel de Icaza, Thomas Canty, Jukka-Pekka Iivonen

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction.

1.1.

1.1.1. The Worksheet

1.2. The Menu bar

1.3. The Toolbar

1.4. Other worksheet areas.

1.4.1. Data entry area.
1.4.2. The Cell area
1.4.3. The Info Area

2. Entering data.

2.1. Strings and numbers

2.1.1. Dates and Numbers
2.1.2. Editing of cells.
2.1.3. Editing commands

2.2. Formulas

2.2.1. Syntax
2.2.2. Using Functions
2.2.3. Names
2.2.4. Array Formulas

2.3. Cell Referencing

2.3.1. Absolute cell referencing
2.3.2. Referencing multiple cells
2.3.3. Referencing cells on other sheets

2.4. Selecting Cells While Entering Formulas.

2.4.1. Entering data into a formula with the mouse
2.4.2. Entering data into a formula with the keyboard.

2.5. Editing cells using the selection

2.5.1. Simple Selections
2.5.2. Selecting multiple cells
2.5.3. Discontinuous selections
2.5.4. Keyboard Shortcuts
2.5.5. Filling a region with the same text or value.

3. Copying and Moving.

3.1.

3.1.1. Using the mouse to drag the selection
3.1.2. Right Click Options
3.1.3. Move and copy right click menu options

4. Autofill.

4.1. AutoFill

4.1.1. Filling with Dates
4.1.2. String And Number autofill
4.1.3. Formula autofill
4.1.4. Automagic autofill
4.1.5. Other Notes on autofill

5. Cell Formatting

5.1. Cell Formatting

5.1.1. The Format Dialog
5.1.2. Changing the Font or Font Color
5.1.3. Changing the cell's Background Colors and Patterns
5.1.4. Cell content justification and alignment
5.1.5. Cell Formatting options on the buttonbar.

5.2. Number formatting overview

5.3. Date and Time formatting

6. Working with files.

6.1. Saving files
6.2. File format
6.3. AutoSave Tool

7. Printing

7.1. Printing to a Printer or a File.

7.2. Print Setup.

7.2.1. Print Setup Dialog - Page
7.2.2. Print Setup Dialog - Margins
7.2.3. Print Setup Dialog - Headers and Footers
7.2.4. Print Setup Dialog - Page

7.3. Print Preview.

7.3.1. Menu Bar
7.3.2. Toolbar

8. Data Filters

8.1. Data Filters

8.1.1. Advanced Filter

9.1. Solver

9.1.1. Introduction to Linear Programming
9.1.2. Spreadsheet Modeling
9.1.3. Integer Programming

9.2. Goal Seek Tool

9.2.1. Using the Tool
9.2.2. Results
9.2.3. Desired Value in a Given Range

10. Data analysis tools

10.1. An Overview

10.2. Analysis of Variance

10.2.1. Anova: Single Factor Tool
10.2.2. Anova: Two-Factor Tool

10.3. Correlation Tool

10.4. Covariance Tool

10.5. Descriptive Statistics Tool

10.6. Exponential Smoothing Tool

10.7. Fourier Analysis Tool

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

10.9. Histogram Tool

10.10. Moving Average Tool

10.11. Random Number Generation Tool

10.11.1. Random Distributions

10.12. Rank and Percentile Tool

10.13. Regression Tool

10.14. Sampling Tool

10.15. Comparing Means of 2 Populations

10.15.1. t-Test: Paired Two Sample for Means Tool
10.15.2. t-Test: Two-Sample Assuming Equal Variances Tool
10.15.3. t-Test: Two-Sample Assuming Unequal Variances Tool
10.15.4. z-Test: Two Samples for Means Tool

11. Auto Correct Tool

11.1. AutoCorrect Tool

11.1.1. Correct TWo INitial CApitals
11.1.2. Capitalize first letter of sentence
11.1.3. Capitalize names of days
11.1.4. Correct accidental use of cAPS LOCK key

12. Tutorials

13. Drawing on a worksheet

14. Authors

14.1. Authors

15. License

15.1. License

16. Gnumeric Function Reference

16.1. Reference

List of Figures
1-1. A example of the entire worksheet.
1-2. The toolbar
1-3. The Data Entry area.
1-4. The Current Cell Indicator.
1-5. The column labels at the top of the worksheet.
1-6. The row labels at the left side of the worksheet.
1-7. The info area.
1-8. The running calculation area.
2-1. Entering strings and numbers.
2-2. The highlighted selection
2-3. An Active cell.
2-4. The active cell with the cursor.
2-5. A multi-cell selection
2-6. Multiple cells being selected with the cursor.
2-7. A discontinuous selection of cells.
2-8. An entire row being selected.
2-9. An entire column being selected.
2-10. The entire worksheet being selected.
2-11. A selection of several cells.
2-12. A selection of several cells, filled with the same values.
3-1. The option menu for dragging a cell with right click
4-1. A cell with the seed for an autofill.
4-2. A set of cells being autofilled
4-3. A seed cell for a date autofill.
4-4. A set of cells being filled with a sequence.
4-5. A cell with a date in it, ready to be the seed for a fill.
4-6. A set of cells being filled.
4-7. A range of cells autofilled with the months.
4-8. Some simple autofill examples.
4-9. Formula to be autofilled.
4-10. Formula autofilled to several cells.
5-1. The main number formatting dialog.
5-2. The Font selection dialog
5-3. The cell color dialog.
5-4. Example of text justification.
5-5. The cell justification dialog.
5-6. Example of justification quick buttons.
6-1. The Auto Save Tool dialog.
7-1. Print Dialog
7-2. Print Setup Dialog - Page
7-3. Print Setup Dialog - Margins
7-4. Print Dialog
7-5. Print Setup Dialog - Page
7-6. Print Preview Dialog
8-1. Worksheet containing the table to be filtered and a simple criteria.
8-2. Criteria for selecting rows whose `Profit' column is between 0 and 40000.
8-3. The Advanced Filter dialog.
9-1. Linear programming example
9-2. The empty Solver dialog.
9-3. Add constraint dialog.
9-4. The solver dialog
9-5. The Solver results dialog
10-1. The Data Analysis Tools
10-2. The common output options of the data analysis tools.
10-3. Specifying Ranges.
10-4. The Correlation Tool Dialog.
10-5. The Data
10-6. The Completed Dialog
10-7. The Result
10-8. The Descriptive Statistics Tool Dialog.
10-9. The Descriptive Statistics Tool Dialog.
10-10. The Rank and Percentile Tool Dialog.
11-1. The Auto Correct Tool dialog.

List of Examples
2-1. Examples of standard operators
2-2. Basic Function syntax
2-3. Some examples of function syntax
2-4. Examples of name usage
2-5. Entering an Array Formula
2-6. Some examples of function syntax
2-7. Absolute cell referencing examples
2-8. Some examples of function syntax
2-9. Referencing blocks of cells
2-10. Referencing blocks of cells
2-11. Referencing values in other sheets
5-1. Number Format Categories
5-2. Some examples of number formatting
5-3. Date and Time Formatting.
10-1. Using The Correlation Tool

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