The menu choices are grouped into the following groups:
Alternative views of the current document.
These menu items allow the user to open multiple views of
the same document.
New Shared --- The
New Shared menu item opens up a new
window with the current workbook visible and where both windows
are open to the same
section of the workbook. If the user starts editing a different
part of the sheet in one view, the other view moves automatically to that
portion of the worksheet. Similarly, if the user changes to a
different worksheet in one view, the other view changes also.
New Unshared --- The
New Unshared menu item opens up a new
window with the current workbook visible. Both view are then
independent. When a change is made in either view, the other will
move to show the area of the edit.
Global changes to the current view.
TheZoom menu item allows a user
to change the amount of the sheet visible in a window of a given
size. The Freeze Panes menu item allows
part of the worksheet to be frozen in place while the rest of the
sheet scrolls next to it.
Zoom... --- The
Zoom menu item opens a dialog which
allows the user to set the magnification of any of the worksheets
in the current workbook.
Freeze Panes --- The
Freeze Panes menu item is used to freeze
the top-most and leftmost visible portion of the worksheet. This is
useful to be able to line up portions of the worksheet which are
not usually together. For instance, if a user had a very large table
with the titles of each oolumn of data on row 12, the user could
select row 13 and select this menu item. If the user scrolled
through each data row, the data would line up underneath each header.
Gnumeric freezes the portion of the worksheet which is currently
visible and is above and left of the current selection. If the
selection is not visible, then the frozen section will be nine rows
tall and five columns wide unless the selection is in a currently
visible column or row in which case that postion is used.
Gnumeric currently does not support freezing only columns or
only rows. The user can simply move the selection far to the
right or far below of the area they want to freeze. This will
achieve the same effect. Currently, inserted objects are not
tracked with frozen panes. Objects which are not in the lower right
hand pane are lost from view while the panes are frozen. These
objects reappear when the view is unfrozen.
Toolbar configuration.
The Toolbars menu option launches
a dialog to configure the presence and look of the three
toolbars. This dialog allows the user either to show or completely hide
each toolbar. The user can also set the toolbars to display as icons or
as icons and text. The third selection Priority text
only currently has no effect. This dialog allows
users to view tooltips as
the mouse scrolls over the toolbars. Tooltips are small windows which
open up automatically when the mouse pointer is over a button. These
windows contain a text explanation of the button under the mouse
pointer.