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the tally guide : running

Now that you have tally built on your system, lets jump in and run it.

All commands given below assume that the tally executable is now on your path and is called tally (which is the default when using either the Makefile or Go install route).

Starting a New Project

To start a new tally spreadsheet just invoke the program name itself:

tally

Once you do so you should see a spreadsheet with one cell (A1). The workbook/file will be called `blank.tss`. You will be able to save it as whatever you like, which we will cover later in this guide.

Opening Existing Files

To open a file, pass the filepath to tally when you run the program. For example:

tally ~/Documents/spreadsheets/my-awesome-spreadsheet.tss

tally can read its own format (.tss), but can also import most comma/tab separated value file (.csv and .tsv) formats. So instead of the above you might pass a path like this:

tally /home/myUser/my-cool-data.csv

Once you do so, tally will load the sheet and you should see it on the screen. If tally cannot read the file the program will output an error message stating as much to stderr and exit.