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Spreadsheets

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Gnumeric most powerful spreadsheet program
- Single editor environment
- Size Limit: Max rows: 16,777,216; Max Columns: 16,384; Max Cells: 274,877,906,944
- Project doesn't provide Windows binaries; lag for latest version to be ported to Windows or Macintosh
Libre Calc
- Single editor environment
- Size Limit: each sheet can have a maximum of 1,048,576 rows and a maximum of 1024 columns.
  - Each document has a size limit of 4 GB
Google Sheets
- Multi-editor environment
- Size Limit Up to 2 million cells
Microsoft Excel
- Single editor environment
- x32 bit vs. x64 bit
- Size Limit: 1,048,576 rows by 16,384 columns
  - x32 bit: Each document limited to 2GB
  - x64 bit: Each document limited by system physical memory