# Chapter 2. Introduction

This chapter will show the main features of KSpread

# 2.1. The KOffice environment

KSpread is a full featured spreadsheet program.

It is part of the KOffice productivity suite for the KDesktop Environment.

Other applications in KOffice include

KWord (text processing and desktop publishing)
KPresenter (presentation creator)
KIllustrator (a vector drawing program)
KImageShop (a bitmap image editor)
Katabase (database)
KFormula (formula editor)
KChart (for charts/graphs)
and KImage (an image viewer).

All KOffice applications were designed from the beginning to take advantage from KDE 2.0. Because of this, KSpread (like all of KOffice), supports drag and drop, themes, and many other advanced features.

KSpread is a spreadsheet which can work as a traditional table-oriented sheet but also allows to put in complex formula of higher mathematics and statistics. There´s also the possibility of putting the data to visibility by using graphics

With the use of Python scripting there will be the possibility of having automated processes within the spreadsheets such as pre-defined input masks and calculation on demand.

Other advantages are:

- This is only a template and has to be filled with information on the main program features.