Libreoffice 3.4 Calc Guide

LibreOffice 3.4 Calc Guide Using Spreadsheets in LibreOffice Copyright This document is Copyright © 2012 by its contributors as listed below. You may distribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either the GNU General Public License (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html), version 3 or later, or the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), version 3.0 or later. Note that Chapter 8, Using the DataPilot, is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License, version 3.0. All trademarks within this guide belong to their legitimate owners. Contributors John A Smith Jean Hollis Weber Martin J Fox Andrew Pitonyak Simon Brydon Gabriel Godoy Barbara Duprey Cover art: Drew Jensen Christoph Noack Klaus-Jürgen Weghorn Jean Hollis Weber Feedback Please direct any comments or suggestions about this document to: [email protected] Acknowledgments This book is adapted from Getting Started with OpenOffice.org 3.3. The contributors to that book are listed on page 13. Publication date and software version Published 17 July 2012. Based on LibreOffice 3.4. Documentation for LibreOffice is available at http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation Contents Copyright..................................................................................................................................... 2 Preface.................................................................................................................................. 9 Who is this book for?................................................................................................................. 10 What's in this book?................................................................................................................... 10 Where to get more help............................................................................................................. 10 What you see may be different................................................................................................... 11 Using LibreOffice on a Mac........................................................................................................ 11 What are all these things called?............................................................................................... 12 Who wrote this book?................................................................................................................ 13 Acknowledgements.................................................................................................................... 13 Frequently asked questions....................................................................................................... 13 Chapter 1 Introducing Calc.................................................................................................................15 What is Calc?............................................................................................................................. 16 Spreadsheets, sheets, and cells................................................................................................ 16 Parts of the main Calc window................................................................................................... 16 Starting new spreadsheets........................................................................................................ 24 Opening existing spreadsheets.................................................................................................. 26 Opening CSV files..................................................................................................................... 26 Saving spreadsheets................................................................................................................. 28 Password protection.................................................................................................................. 30 Navigating within spreadsheets................................................................................................. 32 Selecting items in a sheet or spreadsheet................................................................................. 35 Working with columns and rows.................................................................................................37 Working with sheets................................................................................................................... 38 Viewing Calc.............................................................................................................................. 42 Using the Navigator................................................................................................................... 45 Using document properties........................................................................................................ 47 Chapter 2 Entering, Editing, and Formatting Data........................................................................... 49 Introduction................................................................................................................................ 50 Entering data using the keyboard.............................................................................................. 50 Speeding up data entry.............................................................................................................. 52 Sharing content between sheets................................................................................................ 55 Validating cell contents.............................................................................................................. 55 Editing data................................................................................................................................ 57 Formatting data.......................................................................................................................... 58 Autoformatting cells and sheets................................................................................................. 64 Formatting spreadsheets using themes..................................................................................... 64 Using conditional formatting....................................................................................................... 65 Hiding and showing data............................................................................................................67 Sorting records.......................................................................................................................... 71 LibreOffice 3.4 Calc Guide 3 Finding and replacing in Calc..................................................................................................... 72 Chapter 3 Creating Charts and Graphs............................................................................................. 77 Introduction................................................................................................................................ 78 Creating a chart......................................................................................................................... 78 Editing charts............................................................................................................................. 82 Formatting charts....................................................................................................................... 87 Formatting 3D charts................................................................................................................. 89 Formatting the chart elements................................................................................................... 91 Adding drawing objects to charts............................................................................................... 94 Resizing and moving the chart................................................................................................... 94 Gallery of chart types................................................................................................................. 96 Chapter 4 Using Styles and Templates in Calc...............................................................................105 What is a template?................................................................................................................. 106 What are styles?...................................................................................................................... 106 Types of styles in Calc............................................................................................................. 106 Accessing styles...................................................................................................................... 107 Applying cell styles.................................................................................................................. 108 Applying page styles................................................................................................................ 109 Modifying styles....................................................................................................................... 110 Creating new (custom) styles................................................................................................... 113 Copying and moving styles...................................................................................................... 114 Deleting styles.........................................................................................................................

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