Calligra Sheets (formerly ''KSpread'' and ''Calligra Tables'') is a

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application that is part of

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, an integrated

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and

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developed by

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. 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

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and

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. Sheets’ native file format has been

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since version two and previously used its own

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format, compressed with ZIP. Sheets also has the ability to import several spreadsheet formats, including XLS (

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, CSV, dBase,

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, SXC (

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), 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.

KChart

KChart is the charting tool of Calligra Suite. The plug-in is relatively simple compared to other office applications such as

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, being designed for small datasets, and using only the most common 5–6 types of chart ( histograms, pie charts,

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s, etc.)

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KChart

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