Gnumeric

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Gnumeric is a free spreadsheet program that is part of the GNOME desktop. It is intended to be a free replacement for proprietary spreadsheet programs such as Microsoft Excel, which it broadly and openly emulates. Gnumeric was created and developed by Miguel de Icaza, but he has since moved on to other projects. The current maintainer is Jody Goldberg.

Gnumeric has the ability to import and export data in several file formats, including CSV, Microsoft Excel, HTML, LaTeX, Lotus 1-2-3, OpenDocument and Quattro Pro; its native format is the Gnumeric file format, 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 conditional formating are not yet supported but are planned for future versions.

Gnumeric's accuracy[1] has helped it to establish a niche among people using it for statistical analysis and other scientific tasks.[citation needed] For improving the accuracy of Gnumeric, the developers are cooperating with the R Project.

Gnumeric version 1.0 was released December 31, 2001. The current release is version 1.7, the first to have basic Microsoft Office Open XML support.