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<chapter id="chapter-manual-usage">
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<chapter id="chapter-quick-start">
<title>A Quick Introduction</title>
<para>
The best way to learn how to use
&gnum; is to begin exploring the
program yourself. This chapter will help you get started trying
new things and seeing what happens. The chapter explains the
fundamentals of spreadsheets in general and of
&gnum; in particular. The chapter
attempts to help new users get started with
&gnum; and provides background for
the more detailed explanations given in the rest of the manual.
</para>
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<emphasis role="bold">Getting started with computers</emphasis>
</para>
<para>
Unfortunately, this manual cannot teach you the very basics of
interacting with a modern computer. If you have never used
computers, don't know the names of the hardware components
(the pieces you can touch) or don't know the names of the
elements you see on the screen (like windows or the mouse
pointer), you will probably want to get some basic advice from
someone you know or read the manuals which came with your
machine or your operating system. It's all pretty easy but, in
order to understand this manual, you will need to know some
basic terminology and have some basic computing skills.
</para>
<para>
If you are using the GNOME desktop environment, you can read
the <ulink type="help" url="ghelp:user-guide">the GNOME
Desktop User Guide</ulink> for help in getting started with
computers.
</para>
<para>
If you are using the another desktop environment such as
<ulink url="http://www.kde.org/">KDE</ulink> or another
operating system, please see the instructions from the web
site linked with either your desktop environment, your
operating system, your software distribution source or the
people who provided you with your computer. There are also
many books providing good introduction to computers.
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&quick-start;
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<title>Gnumeric Elements</title>
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&gnum; 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.
</para>
&gui-overview;
&gui-menus;
&gui-toolbars;
&gui-other-elements;
&gui-mouse;
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<chapter id="chapter-data">
<title>Working with Data</title>
<para>
This chapter explains the core functionality of
&gnum; including the basic types of
data manipulated by &gnum;, the
methods of entering, manipulating and formatting data, and the
basic tools for analysis of these data. More advanced analysis is
described in <xref linkend="chapter-advanced-analysis" />.
</para>
&data-overview;
&data-types;
&data-entry;
&data-entry-adv;
&data-entry-extern;
&data-selections;
&data-move-copy;
&data-delete;
&data-insert;
&data-format;
&data-filter;
&data-modify;
&data-generate;
&data-commentNlink;
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<chapter id="chapter-advanced-analysis">
<title>Advanced Analysis</title>
<para>
This chapter explains many of the advanced analytic tools
available in &gnum; including linear algebra calculations and simulation
analysis.
</para>
&analysis-overview;
&analysis-complexNum;
&analysis-goalseek;
&analysis-simulation;
&analysis-scenarios;
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<chapter id="chapter-solver">
<title>The Solver</title>
<para>
This chapter explains the linear programming solver available
from within &gnum;.
</para>
&analysis-solver;
</chapter>
<chapter id="chapter-stat-analysis">
<title>Statistical Analysis</title>
<para>
This chapter explains the various statistical analysis tools
available within &gnum;.
</para>
<para>
The data analysis tools package contains tools for statistical
data analysis and data sampling. To use
these tools select the <guilabel>Data Analysis...</guilabel> item
in the <guilabel>Tools</guilabel> menu. This yields a list of
tools to choose from. Select one of the tools from the list and
press the OK button or double-click on the tool. The tools are
described below.
</para>
<figure id="fig-statistical-analysistools">
<title>Statistical Analysis Tools </title>
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available through the "Tools" menu.</phrase>
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</figure>
&analysis-statistical;
</chapter>
<chapter id="chapter-graphics">
<title>Graphics: Images, Widgets, and Drawings</title>
<para>
This chapter explains how to add graphical elements to a
&gnum; worksheet, including
images from external
files, graphical user interface widgets which interact with
worksheet data, and simple drawing elements.
</para>
&graphics-overview;
&graphics-images;
&graphics-widgets;
&graphics-drawings;
</chapter>
<chapter id="chapter-graphs">
<title>Graphs</title>
<para>
&gnum; includes a powerful mechanism
to create graphical charts which present visually the data contained
in a worksheet.
</para>
<para>
The first section of this chapter starts with an overview of
graph creation, discusses terminology, and presents graph
components and their organization. The next section explains
the <interface>"Chart Guru"</interface> which is the tool used to
configure graphs. The subsequent section presents the different
types of plots which can be included in a graph and the final
section explains how data can be pre-selected to speed up the
process of graph creation.
</para>
<note>
<para>
Charts are exceedingly effective communication
devices. Unfortunately, this means that one cannot determine,
simply based on the data to be plotted, what type of plot will be
the most effective. Instead users must familiarize themselves with
the various types of plots which are available and decide for
themselves which plot type is the most effective to communicate
an idea. <xref
linkend="sect-graphs-overview" /> contains a
detailed explanation of the plot types available in
&gnum;.
</para>
</note>
<para>
This chapter explains how to add graphs to plot worksheet data.
</para>
&graphics-plots;
</chapter>
<chapter id="chapter-worksheets">
<title>Using Worksheets</title>
<para>
This chapter explains the use and manipulation of worksheets in
&gnum;. The chapter explains how to move around a worksheet, how
to alter the appearance and display organization of the
worksheet contents, how to manipulate entire worksheets and how
to protect worksheet contents.
</para>
&f-worksheets;
</chapter>
<chapter id="chapter-workbooks">
<title>Workbook Settings</title>
<para>
This chapter explains the contents of a
&gnum; workbook which are not part
of the worksheets. This includes several settings which apply to
the workbook and are saved in the
&gnum; file. Settings which apply
to the &gnum; program itself are
called `preferences' and are explained in <xref
linkend="chapter-configuring" />.
</para>
&f-workbooks;
</chapter>
<chapter id="chapter-configuring">
<title>Configuring Gnumeric</title>
<para>
This chapter explains how to change the default behaviour of
&gnum; including the startup
behaviour and default locale (language and number display).
</para>
&config-overview;
&config-preferences;
&config-toolbars;
&config-plugins;
&config-localization;
</chapter>
<chapter id="chapter-files">
<title>Working with Files</title>
<para>
This chapter explains how to use files in &gnum;. The chapter
provides an extensive description of the file formats used by
&gnum;. The chapter also explains how to open files, import data
from text files, save files, export data to text files, send
data to others via electronic mail, and convert files from one
format to another.
</para>
&files-overview;
&files-formats;
&files-opening;
&files-textopen;
&files-saving;
&files-textsave;
&files-email;
&files-ssconvert;
</chapter>
<chapter id="chapter-printing">
<title>Printing</title>
<para>
This chapter explains how to print spreadsheets, tables and
plots from &gnum; to a printer
directly or into Postscript or PDF (both are page description
languages).
</para>
&printing;
</chapter>
<chapter id="chapter-morehelp">
<title>Getting More Help</title>
<para>
This chapter describes other sources of help which are available
to users including the &gnum; web
site, the mailing list, and the internet relay chat (IRC)
discussion channel.
</para>
&morehelp;
</chapter>
<chapter id="chapter-bugs">
<title>Reporting a Problem</title>
<para>
This chapter explains how to report a problem with
&gnum; so that the problem can be
fixed. The same procedure can be used to file a report
requesting an enhancement or a new feature.
</para>
&bugs;
</chapter>
<!-- TODO: Write 'getting involved' chapter -->
<!--
<chapter id="chapter-getting-involved">
<title>Getting Involved</title>
<para>
This chapter explains how to get involved in the &gnum; project,
the GNOME project, or other free software projects.
</para>
&getting-involved;
</chapter>
-->
<!-- TODO: Write 'installing' chapter -->
<!--
<chapter id="chapter-installing">
<title>Installing &gnum;</title>
<para>
This chapter explains how to install &gnum; using previously
compiled and bundled files.
</para>
&installing;
</chapter>
-->
<!-- TODO: Write 'compiling' chapter -->
<!--
<chapter id="chapter-compiling">
<title>Compiling &gnum;</title>
<para>
This chapter explains how to compiling the &gnum; source code
into a working program. The chapter explains how to obtain the
source code for the &gnum; program, how to create a correct
environment for compilation, and the steps involved in
compilation.
</para>
&compiling;
</chapter>
-->
<chapter id="chapter-extending">
<title>Extending Gnumeric</title>
<para>
This chapter explains how to go about extending
&gnum; to provide extra
functionality. Because &gnum; is
Free Software this is quite easy to do.
</para>
&extending-overview;
&extending-functions;
&extending-python;
&extending-plugins;
</chapter>
<!-- TODO: Write 'programing' chapter -->
<!--
<chapter id="chapter-programing">
<title>Programing &gnum;</title>
<para>
This chapter explains how to work programing the internals of
&gnum;. This includes explaining the different parts of the code
base, the tools that can be used to help and other useful
information.
</para>
&programing;
</chapter>
-->
<!-- TODO: Write 'documenting' chapter -->
<!--
<chapter id="chapter-documenting">
<title>Improve this manual</title>
<para>
This chapter explains how to help improve this manual by editing
the text from which the manual is build. This includes
explaining the GNOME Documentation Project, DocBook and other
relevant information.
</para>
&documenting;
</chapter>
-->
<!-- TODO: Write 'about' chapter -->
<!--
<chapter id="chapter-about">
<title>About Gnumeric</title>
<para>
This chapter provides some background information on the
creation and distribution of
&gnum;.
</para>
&about-history;
&about-authors;
&about-license;
</chapter>
-->
<!-- ============= Appendices ================================ -->
&function-ref;
&appendix-keybindings;
<!--
<appendix id="glossary">
<title>Glossary</title>
<para>
This appendix defines certain terms used in this manual.
</para>
&appendix-glossary;
</appendix>
-->
<!--
<appendix id="index">
<title>Index</title>
<para>
The index provides references to the use of the important ideas.
</para>
&index;
</appendix>
-->
</book>
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