For large spreadsheets, Gnumeric is the way to go! Libreoffice is too slow for plotting graphs with large multi-column datasets, but gnumeric handles them far better with high responsiveness.
There's a Chinese clone of MS Office, called WPS Office. It offers both ribbon and toolbar-based user interfaces, which you can switch on the fly. It is not open source, though.
Gnumeric
Gnumeric is part of 'GNOME Office' suite, which means it stylistically fits into Ubuntu, but can just as easily be used on its own.
Try http://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/
For text-only use in a terminal, there's
sc(manpage).If the first link is not working, you can try the Ubuntu Packages site.
Also for text terminals, Lotus 1-2-3 for Unix has been ported to Linux.
Check these out... here is list of all spreadsheet software for linux... :)
http://www.linuxlinks.com/Software/Spreadsheets/
else u can try koffice, staroffice and gnome-office.
I hope this helped.. :)
For large spreadsheets, Gnumeric is the way to go! Libreoffice is too slow for plotting graphs with large multi-column datasets, but gnumeric handles them far better with high responsiveness.
There's a Chinese clone of MS Office, called WPS Office. It offers both ribbon and toolbar-based user interfaces, which you can switch on the fly. It is not open source, though.
For more details and installation instructions, see this OMG! Ubuntu! article.