From: Chris C. <ca...@al...> - 2005-11-26 13:56:17
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On Tuesday 15 Nov 2005 04:51, Silvan wrote: > Incidentally, I apparently don't have anything that can read > .gnumeric files. I have some vague idea that it's the spreadsheet > program from some GNOME office suite. Yes. Gnumeric. We don't exactly need a real spreadsheet program just for filling in a table of ticks and crosses for regression testing, but it is sort of convenient. And Gnumeric just happens to be the one I use. I have spent some time with KSpread (the KOffice spreadsheet) and OpenOffice Calc, but I find Gnumeric a lot more comfortable. I didn't find its dependencies too ghastly. KSpread seems to claim to be able to open Gnumeric files, but when I tried it just now it came up blank. > Can Gnumeric export to some common format? The only "common" spreadsheet formats really are Excel and CSV (comma-separated text). The latter would be fine, except there's no way to represent multiple sheets, and I'd need that. I don't care greatly about the format here, and it's surely not the ideal format for the use I'm putting it to anyway. It just happened to be immediately available to me, and easy to deal with, and I wasn't really in the mood to piss about trying to work up the perfect file format before getting started on something useful. Chris |