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Calligra Sheets

Calculation and spreadsheet application for KDE desktop environment

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Calligra Sheets (formerly KSpread and Calligra Tables) is a free software spreadsheet application that is part of Calligra Suite, an integrated graphic art and office suite developed by KDE.

01Features

Among Sheets’ features are multiple sheets per document, assorted formatting possibilities, support for more than 300 built-in functions, templates, chart, spell-check, hyperlinks, data sorting and scripting with Python, Ruby and JavaScript.

02Formats

Sheets’ native file format has been OpenDocument since version two and previously used its own XML format, compressed with ZIP. Sheets also has the ability to import several spreadsheet formats, including XLS (Microsoft Excel), Applix Spreadsheet, Quattro Pro, CSV, dBase, Gnumeric, SXC (OpenOffice.org XML), Kexi and TXT. It supports export of OpenDocument Spreadsheet, SXC, Tables document, CSV, HTML, Gnumeric, TeX and TXT. Sheets does not support export of XLS.

03KChart

KChart is the charting tool of Calligra Suite. The plug-in is relatively simple compared to other office applications such as OpenOffice, being designed for small datasets, and using only the most common 5-6 types of chart (histograms, pie charts, line charts, etc.)

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Sources and credits

This article is adapted from the Wikipedia article Calligra Sheets, written by its contributors and licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Fathomly has changed the layout, removed citation markers, navigation and maintenance notices, and adjusted punctuation. This adapted version is shared under the same license. For references, see the original article.

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  • Breezeicons-apps-48-sheets.svg by Andreas Kainz <kainz.a@gmail.com>, Uri Herrera <uri_herrera@nitrux.in>, Andrew Lake <jamboarder@gmail.com>, Marco Martin <notmart@gmail.com>, Harald Sitter <sitter@kde.org>, Jonathan Riddell <jr@jriddell.org>, Ken Vermette <vermette@gmail.com>, Aleix Pol <aleixpol@kde.org>, David Faure <faure@kde.org>, Albert Vaca <albertvaka@gmail.com>, Luca Beltrame <lbeltrame@kde.org>, Gleb Popov <6yearold@gmail.com>, Nuno Pinheiro <nuno.pinheiro@kdab.com>, Alex Richardson <arichardson.kde@gmail.com>, Jan Grulich <jgrulich@redhat.com>, Bernhard Landauer <oberon@manjaro.org>, Heiko Becker <heirecka@exherbo.org>, Volker Krause <vkrause@kde.org>, David Rosca <nowrep@gmail.com>, Phil Schaf <flying-sheep@web.de>, LGPL

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