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    <revhistory>
      <revision> 
        <revnumber>Gnumeric Manual: Version &manrevision;</revnumber> 
        <date>&date;</date> 
        <revdescription> 
          <para role="author">The Gnumeric Team</para>
          <para role="publisher">GNOME Documentation Project</para>
        </revdescription> 
      </revision>
      <revision> 
        <revnumber>Gnumeric Manual: Version 1.8</revnumber> 
        <date>November 2007</date> 
        <revdescription> 
          <para role="author">The Gnumeric Team</para>
          <para role="publisher">GNOME Documentation Project</para>
        </revdescription> 
      </revision>
      <revision> 
        <revnumber>Gnumeric Manual: Version 1.4</revnumber> 
        <date>November 2004</date> 
        <revdescription> 
          <para role="author">The Gnumeric Team</para>
          <para role="publisher">GNOME Documentation Project</para>
        </revdescription> 
      </revision>
      <revision> 
        <revnumber>Gnumeric Manual: Version 1.2</revnumber> 
        <date>September 2002</date> 
        <revdescription> 
          <para role="author">The Gnumeric Team</para>
          <para role="publisher">GNOME Documentation Project</para>
        </revdescription> 
      </revision>
      <revision> 
        <revnumber>Gnumeric Manual: Version 1.0</revnumber> 
        <date>January 2002</date> 
        <revdescription> 
          <para role="author">The Gnumeric Team</para>
          <para role="publisher">GNOME Documentation Project</para>
         </revdescription> 
      </revision>
      <revision> 
        <revnumber>Gnumeric Manual: Earlier Versions</revnumber> 
        <date>1998-2001</date> 
        <revdescription> 
          <para role="author">The Gnumeric Team</para>
          <para role="publisher">GNOME Documentation Project</para>
        </revdescription> 
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        application or this manual, follow the directions in
        <xref linkend="chapter-bugs" />.

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    &manual-usage;

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  <chapter id="chapter-quick-start">
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      The best way to learn how to use
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      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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      <para>
        <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.
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      <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.
      </para>
    </note>

    &quick-start;

  </chapter>


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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.
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    &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-format-conditional;
    &data-filter;
    &data-modify;
    &data-generate;
    &data-commentNlink;

  </chapter>


  <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,
      the goal seek tool,
      simulation analysis, and scenarios.
    </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;
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  <chapter id="chapter-stat-analysis">
    <title>Statistical Analysis</title>

    <para>
      This chapter explains the various statistical analysis tools
      available within &gnum; including tools to create descriptive
      statistics, as well as parametric and non-parametric hypotheses
      tests.
    </para>

  <para>
    &gnum; includes various tools for statistical
    data analysis and data sampling.  To use
    these tools select them from the <guilabel>Statistics</guilabel> menu 
    and its submenus.  The tools are described below. In this description as
    well as in the <guilabel>Statistics</guilabel> menu these tools are 
    classified into six categories.
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    &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 -->
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   <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>
