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Comparison of spreadsheets
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Web-based spreadsheets do not in general depend on a particular operating system or similar constraints and are therefore generally more portable by their nature than desktop applications.
Generally, online spreadsheets offer spreadsheet sharing and public sharing as part of their features which enables collaboration between multiple users.
Some on-line spreadsheets provide "remote data update" allowing data values to be extracted from other peoples spreadsheets even though they may be inactive at the time.
It should be noted that Gnumeric (listed below as a desktop spreadsheet) is also used as the "back-end" processor in at least one on-line spreadsheet application (Editgrid).
The following tables only provide a comparison of desktop spreadsheet applications.
For a list and links to comparisons of online (web-based) spreadsheets,
| Creator | Development started | First public release | Latest stable version | Cost (USD) | Open source | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenOffice.org Calc | Sun Microsystems | 2000 | Build 638c / October 2001 | 2.1 / December 12, 2006 | Free | Yes |
| Microsoft Excel | Microsoft | 1982 | 1985 | $239 | No | |
| Gnumeric | GNOME Office Team | 1.6.3 / March 23, 2006 | Free | Yes | ||
| KSpread | KOffice KSpread Team | 1.6 / October 16, 2006 | Free | Yes | ||
| Mariner Calc | Mariner Software | 1990 | 1992 | 5.5.1 | $49.95 | No |
| Mesa | P&L Software | 1990 | 1991 | 3.1 / August 2006 | $34 | No |
| Tables | Daniel Schwill | 2004 | First Public Beta / December 2005 | 1.2 / February 22, 2007 | $49 | No |
| Creator | Development started | First public release | Latest stable version | Cost (USD) | Open source |
The operating systems the software can run on natively (without emulation).
| Windows | Mac OS X | Linux | BSD | Unix | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenOffice.org Calc | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Microsoft Excel | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| Gnumeric | Yes | Yes | |||
| KSpread | Yes | ||||
| Mariner Calc | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| Mesa | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| Tables | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| Windows | Mac OS X | Linux | BSD | Unix |
This table gives a comparison of what file formats each spreadsheet can import.
| Calc | CSV | Excel | HTML | LaTeX | ODF | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenOffice.org Calc | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Microsoft Excel | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | |
| Gnumeric | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| KSpread | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| Mariner Calc | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| Mesa | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| Tables | Partial | Yes | Yes | No | No | Partial |
| OpenOffice.org Calc | CSV | Microsoft Excel | HTML | LaTeX | ODF |
This table gives a comparison of what file formats each spreadsheet can export.
| Calc | CSV | Excel | HTML | LaTeX | ODF | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenOffice.org Calc | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Microsoft Excel | No | Yes | Yes | Partial | No | ||
| Gnumeric | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| KSpread | |||||||
| Mariner Calc | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No |
| Mesa | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No |
| Tables | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No |
| Calc | CSV | Excel | HTML | LaTeX | ODF |