Gnumeric

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title: "Gnumeric" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["2001-software", "business-software-for-linux", "cross-platform-software", "free-software-programmed-in-c", "free-spreadsheet-software", "office-software-that-uses-gtk", "plotting-software", "software-using-the-gnu-general-public-license"] description: "Free and open-source spreadsheet software" topic_path: "technology/operating-systems" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnumeric" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Free and open-source spreadsheet software ::

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Field	Value
name	Gnumeric
logo	Gnumeric.svg
screenshot	Gnumeric 1.12.9.png
caption	A screenshot of Gnumeric 1.12.9 running under Ubuntu MATE
author	Miguel de Icaza
developer	The GNOME Project
released
latest release version
latest release date
latest preview version
latest preview date
programming language	C
platform	GTK 3
operating system	Unix-like
genre	Spreadsheet
license	GPL-2.0-only or GPL-3.0-only
website
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| name = Gnumeric | logo = Gnumeric.svg | screenshot = Gnumeric 1.12.9.png | caption = A screenshot of Gnumeric 1.12.9 running under Ubuntu MATE | author = Miguel de Icaza | developer = The GNOME Project | released = | latest release version = | latest release date = | latest preview version = | latest preview date = | programming language = C | platform = GTK 3 | operating system = Unix-like | language = | genre = Spreadsheet | license = GPL-2.0-only or GPL-3.0-only | website =

Gnumeric is a spreadsheet program that is part of the GNOME Free Software Desktop Project. Gnumeric version 1.0 was released on 31 December 2001. Gnumeric is distributed as free software under the GNU General Public License; it is intended to replace proprietary spreadsheet programs like Microsoft Excel. Gnumeric was created and developed by Miguel de Icaza, but he has since moved on to other projects. The maintainer was Jody Goldberg.

Features

Gnumeric has the ability to import and export data in several file formats, including CSV, Microsoft Excel (write support for the more recent .xlsx format is incomplete), Microsoft Works spreadsheets (.wks), HTML, LaTeX, Lotus 1-2-3, OpenDocument and Quattro Pro; its native format is the Gnumeric file format (.gnm or .gnumeric), an XML file compressed with gzip. It includes all of the spreadsheet functions of the North American edition of Microsoft Excel and many functions unique to Gnumeric. Pivot tables and Visual Basic for Applications macros are not yet supported.

Gnumeric's accuracy has helped it to establish a niche for statistical analysis and other scientific tasks. For improving the accuracy of Gnumeric, the developers are cooperating with the R 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.

Dependencies

• glib-2.0 ≥ 2.40.0
  • gobject-2.0 ≥ 2.40.0
  • gmodule-2.0 ≥ 2.40.0
  • gio-2.0 ≥ 2.40.0
• gtk+-3.0 ≥ 3.8.7
  • gdk-pixbuf-2.0 ≥ 2.22.0
• pango ≥ 1.24.0
• cairo ≥ 1.10.0
  • pangocairo ≥ 1.24.0
  • cairo-ps ≥ 1.10.0
  • cairo-pdf ≥ 1.10.0
  • cairo-svg ≥ 1.10.0
• libgsf-1 ≥ 1.14.24 (aka G Structured File Library)
• libxml-2.0 ≥ 2.4.12
• libxslt (an XSLT processor extending libxml2)

References

References

1. (28 March 2012). "COPYING".
2. "The Gnumeric spreadsheet". Gnumeric.
3. Rick Lehrbaum. (11 January 2002). "DesktopLinux.com interviews Gnumeric project leader Jody Goldberg".
4. "Gnumeric v1.10 manual, file formats".
5. [http://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/doc/sect-file-open-formats.shtml The file formats which Gnumeric can read]. Projects.gnome.org. Retrieved 2013-12-09.
6. (November 2007). "''Gnumeric'' XML File Format". GNOME Documentation Project.
7. "The Gnumeric Manual, version 1.12".
8. "Things we plan to do in Gnumeric". Gnumeric.
9. McCullough, B. D.. (4 June 2004). "Fixing Statistical Errors in Spreadsheet Software: The Cases of Gnumeric and Excel". Computational Statistics & Data Analysis.
10. McCullough, B. D.. (15 June 2005). "On the accuracy of statistical procedures in Microsoft Excel 2003". Computational Statistics & Data Analysis.
11. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgsf
12. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxslt
13. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/goffice/-/blob/master/configure.ac#L117

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