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[gnumeric] Updated documentation

commit 5c596619b00424d076c143a34e398e6d72042e39
Author: Andreas J Guelzow <aguelzow pyrshep ca>
Date:   Sun Jul 31 17:04:33 2011 -0600

    Updated documentation
    
    2011-07-31  Andreas J. Guelzow <aguelzow pyrshep ca>
    
    	* figures/menu-edit-select.png: updated
    	* figures/menu-file-printarea.png: updated
    	* gui-menus.xml: updated
    	* quick-start.xml: updated
    	* welcome.xml: updated

 doc/C/ChangeLog                       |    8 ++++++++
 doc/C/figures/menu-edit-select.png    |  Bin 12576 -> 20760 bytes
 doc/C/figures/menu-file-printarea.png |  Bin 4246 -> 12287 bytes
 doc/C/gui-menus.xml                   |   22 ++++++++++++++++++----
 doc/C/quick-start.xml                 |   28 ++++++++++++----------------
 doc/C/welcome.xml                     |   27 +++++++++++++++++++++++----
 6 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/doc/C/ChangeLog b/doc/C/ChangeLog
index 438a772..c461b93 100644
--- a/doc/C/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/C/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
 2011-07-31  Andreas J. Guelzow <aguelzow pyrshep ca>
 
+	* figures/menu-edit-select.png: updated
+	* figures/menu-file-printarea.png: updated
+	* gui-menus.xml: updated
+	* quick-start.xml: updated
+	* welcome.xml: updated
+
+2011-07-31  Andreas J. Guelzow <aguelzow pyrshep ca>
+
 	* data-format-conditional.xml: new stub
 	* Makefile.am: include data-format-conditional.xml
 	* data-format.xml: refer to data-format-conditional.xml
diff --git a/doc/C/figures/menu-edit-select.png b/doc/C/figures/menu-edit-select.png
index 29501b8..365d1df 100644
Binary files a/doc/C/figures/menu-edit-select.png and b/doc/C/figures/menu-edit-select.png differ
diff --git a/doc/C/figures/menu-file-printarea.png b/doc/C/figures/menu-file-printarea.png
index 0a3586d..abf02d2 100644
Binary files a/doc/C/figures/menu-file-printarea.png and b/doc/C/figures/menu-file-printarea.png differ
diff --git a/doc/C/gui-menus.xml b/doc/C/gui-menus.xml
index 59eb97c..adc66dc 100644
--- a/doc/C/gui-menus.xml
+++ b/doc/C/gui-menus.xml
@@ -273,9 +273,13 @@
                 <guimenuitem>Print Area</guimenuitem> menu item
                 opens the submenu shown in <xref linkend="menu-file-printarea.png" />.
                 The items in this submenu allow the print area to be set, 
-                shown or cleared. The print area of a sheet is that range 
+                shown or cleared; and manual page breaks to be set or cleared. 
+		The print area of a sheet is that range 
                 of the sheet that should be printed. Items outside of the
-                print area are usually omitted when printing.
+                print area are usually omitted when printing. When printing
+		&gnum; will usually choose the appropriate page breaks. Manual
+		page breaks can be used to force &gnum; to insert a page break 
+		prematurely.
   	       </para>
     <figure id="menu-file-printarea.png">
       <title>The <guimenu>Print Area</guimenu> submenu.</title>
@@ -917,9 +921,19 @@
                       If no object is selected it will select the object locate at
                       the front.
 				    </para>
-     	   		</listitem>
-
+		</listitem>
 
+		<listitem>
+		  <para>
+		    The <guimenuitem>Go to Top</guimenuitem>,  
+		    <guimenuitem>Go to Bottom</guimenuitem>,
+		    <guimenuitem>Go to the First</guimenuitem>, 
+		    <guimenuitem>Go to the Last</guimenuitem>,
+		  menu items move the selection within a rectangular block of data cells.
+		  the front.
+		  </para>
+		</listitem>
+		
       	    	<listitem>
      	      	<para>
      	       	<guimenuitem>Goto cell...</guimenuitem> &mdash; The
diff --git a/doc/C/quick-start.xml b/doc/C/quick-start.xml
index 7508e29..7229c2e 100644
--- a/doc/C/quick-start.xml
+++ b/doc/C/quick-start.xml
@@ -999,14 +999,17 @@ c:\Program Files\Gnome-Office\gnumeric
     <para>
       For example, if you enter "12/25/2000" (without the quotes),
       &gnum; guesses that this is a date
-      and stores the value 36885. (The value
+      and stores the value (serial number) 36885. (Usuallyy, the value
       &gnum; uses for dates is the number
-      of days since the last day of 1899.
+      of days since the January 1st, 1900.)
       <footnote>
 	<para>
-        &gnum; actually perpetuates an error of
-        <application>Excel</application> for the sake of compatibility
-        and assumes 1900 to be a leap year even though it was not.
+        For the sake of compatibility with <application>Excel</application>,
+	&gnum; also assigns a serial number to February 29th, 1900 as if 1900 
+	had been a leap year even though it was not. So February 28th, 1900 
+	has the serial number 59 and March 1st, 1900 the serial number 61. If 
+	you try to format the serial number 60 as a date, &gnum; recognizes 
+	that that date does not exist and shows a sequence of # symbols.
 	</para>
       </footnote>
       At the same time, &gnum; changes the
@@ -1293,13 +1296,6 @@ c:\Program Files\Gnome-Office\gnumeric
     You can remove the current sheet using the <guimenuitem>Remove
     this Sheet</guimenuitem> menu entry from the context
     menu. 
-    <warning>
-      <para>
-        Deleted sheets cannot be retrieved through the "Undo"
-        mechanism and sheet deletion is therefore an irreversible operation. Be
-        careful!
-      </para>
-    </warning>
   </para>
 
   <para>
@@ -1901,10 +1897,10 @@ c:\Program Files\Gnome-Office\gnumeric
 
   <note>
     <para>
-      Any files which are saved by &gnum;
-      must be deleted by the user. Either the GNOME file manager
-      <application>Nautilus</application> or the shell tool
-      <command>rm</command> can be used to delete the files. 
+      To delete files that were created by &gnum;
+      any graphical file manager (such as the GNOME file manager
+      <application>Nautilus</application>) or the shell command
+      <command>rm</command> can be used. 
     </para>
   </note>
 
diff --git a/doc/C/welcome.xml b/doc/C/welcome.xml
index 5d02e07..98b7b7b 100644
--- a/doc/C/welcome.xml
+++ b/doc/C/welcome.xml
@@ -301,22 +301,41 @@
       </para>
       <para>
 	Basic import and export support for the
-	<ulink type="http" url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ODF";> OpenDocument Format </ulink> ("OOXML")
+	<ulink type="http" url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ODF";> OpenDocument Format </ulink> ("ODF")
 	format was added, focussing on standard spreadsheet content and charts. Gnumeric also supports 
 	nearly all functions in the large group of functions in the current OpenFormula Draft.
       </para>
     </listitem>
     <listitem>
       <para>
+        <emphasis role="bold">Improved Microsoft OfficeOpenXML import and export</emphasis>
+      </para>
+      <para>
+	Import and export of
+	<ulink type="http" url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ooxml";> Office Open XML </ulink> ("OOXML")
+	format files was significantly improved.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
         <emphasis role="bold">New and Improved Graphs</emphasis>
       </para>
       <para>New plot types for surfaces and probability plots have been added. Moreover, when an axis 
-	is a date or time axis, reasonable places for tick marks will now be picked. Trend lines have 
+	is a date or time axis, reasonable places for tick marks will 
+	now be picked. Trend lines have 
 	also been improved
       </para>
     </listitem>
     <listitem>
       <para>
+        <emphasis role="bold">Conditional Formatting</emphasis>
+      </para>
+      <para>&gnum; now supports conditional formatting of cells. &gnum;'s
+      conditional formatting supports an arbitrary number of conditions.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
         <emphasis role="bold">Faster Evaluation</emphasis>
       </para>
       <para>Evaluation of some fairly common sheets with
@@ -339,8 +358,8 @@
       </para>
       <para>The statistical analysis tools have been improved and
 	there are quite a few new ones, for example Kaplan Meier Estimates, 
-	Normality Tests, Principal Component Analysis, Sign Tests, improved Exponential 
-	Smoothing, etc.
+	Normality Tests, Principal Component Analysis, Sign Tests, 
+	improved Exponential Smoothing, various basic non-parametric tests, etc.
       </para>
     </listitem>
     <listitem>
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