Starting Gnumeric from a *NIX terminal Starting from a Spreadsheet file

Starting Gnumeric from a Microsoft desktop

Gnumeric, starting with the 1.4 series, can be run as a native application on the Microsoft Windows operating systems. On those operating systems, The Start menu should contain an entry which will launch Gnumeric. The actual location of the menu item depends on the choices made during installation.

3.2.4.1. Starting Gnumeric from a Microsoft command prompt

You can also start Gnumeric from a shell window by finding the directory with the program itself which will be called gnumeric.exe. You can either move to that directory and type: 

gnumeric
or you can type the whole name of the path and file, which will be something like: 
c:\Program Files\Gnome-Office\gnumeric
either of which should start the program.

Starting Gnumeric from a *NIX terminal Starting from a Spreadsheet file