LibreOffice Calc is the

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component of the

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software package. After forking from

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in 2010, LibreOffice Calc underwent a massive re-work of external reference handling to fix many defects in formula calculations involving external references, and to boost data caching performance, especially when referencing large data ranges. Calc is capable of opening and saving most spreadsheets in

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. Calc is also capable of saving spreadsheets as

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files. As with the entire LibreOffice suite, Calc is available for a variety of platforms, including

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. Available under the

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, Calc is

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. There is now a closed beta of LibreOffice on

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Features

Capabilities of Calc include: * Ability to read/write

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(ODF), Excel (XLS), CSV, and several other formats. * Support for many functions, including those for

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s, as well as financial and statistical functions. * Supports 1 million rows and 16384 columns in a spreadsheet, making LibreOffice spreadsheets more suitable for heavier scientific or financial spreadsheets. Version 7.0 introduced "very large spreadsheets" which includes 16 million rows and can be enabled as an experimental feature. *Up to now, new functions such as IFS, Switch TEXT JOIN, MAXIFS, MINIFS functions, etc. were available only in Excel 2016 and later. LibreOffice Calc can use them.

Pivot Table

Originally called DataPilot, Pivot Table provides similar functionality to the Pivot table found in

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. It is used for interactive table layout and dynamic data analysis. An advanced sort macro is included that allows data to be arranged or categorised based on either a user generated macro or one of several default included macros.

Supported file formats

Release history

Calc has continued to diverge since the fork from its parent OpenOffice with new features being added and code cleanups taking place. Libreoffice Calc in Linux

Versions for LibreOffice Calc include the following:

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