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A few groups are working on [[Activities/Spreadsheet|spreadsheet]] activities for the XO. Dan Bricklin and Luke Closs are working on '''[[SocialCalc]]''', one of the more active initiatives, which has a full javascript featureset and is pushing the envelope re: what js programs can do within Sugar.
A few groups are working on [[Activities/Spreadsheet|spreadsheet]] activities for the XO. Dan Bricklin and Luke Closs are working on '''[[SocialCalc]]''', one of the more active initiatives, which has a full javascript featureset and is pushing the envelope re: what js programs can do within Sugar.

See SocialCalc for the full activity description.


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However, you can easily install "Gnumeric" which is an open source version of Excel.
[[category:activities]]
Enter Terminal activity.
{{Activity page
|genre=Math and Science
Type "su" and <enter>
Type "yum install gnumeric"
|short description=Javascript spreadsheet activity.
Follow the prompts.
|long description=A spreadsheet activity based on Dan Bricklin's work with SocialText, written in Javascript. It has basic Sugar integration, but is still working on implementing subtle versioning and collaboration, and providing visualizations. It scales well to tens of thousands of rows by only rendering the rows being viewed at a given time, and only evaluating expressions on creation and refresh.


When it finishes, just type "gnumeric" from the command prompt and it you then have a fully featured spreadsheet program! (As a note, I'm using build 766 (I think), I've also installed "debian as an upgrade" as an alternate boot with XFCE).
|contact person=User:Manu

|activity source=http://github.com/lukec/socialcalc-xocom/tree/master
[[category:activities]]
|language codes=en
|related project=SocialCalc
|bundle URL=http://github.com/lukec/socialcalc-xocom/tree/master/SocialCalcActivity-1.xo
|activity version=1
|releases=8.1.0 (703), 8.1.1 (708)
|devel status=4. Beta
}}

Latest revision as of 08:50, 1 November 2008

A few groups are working on spreadsheet activities for the XO. Dan Bricklin and Luke Closs are working on SocialCalc, one of the more active initiatives, which has a full javascript featureset and is pushing the envelope re: what js programs can do within Sugar.

See SocialCalc for the full activity description.

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However, you can easily install "Gnumeric" which is an open source version of Excel. Enter Terminal activity. Type "su" and <enter> Type "yum install gnumeric" Follow the prompts.

When it finishes, just type "gnumeric" from the command prompt and it you then have a fully featured spreadsheet program! (As a note, I'm using build 766 (I think), I've also installed "debian as an upgrade" as an alternate boot with XFCE).