Copyright This document is Copyright © 2019 by the LibreOffice Documentation Team. Contributors are 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/4.0/), version 4.0 or later. All trademarks within this guide belong to their legitimate owners. Contributors This book is adapted and updated from LibreOffice Calc Guide 4.1. To this edition Jean Hollis Weber Dave Barton Olivier Hallot Cathy Crumbley Kees Kriek Claire Wood Steve Fanning Zachary Parliman To previous editions John A Smith Jean Hollis Weber Martin J Fox Andrew Pitonyak Simon Brydon Gabriel Godoy Barbara Duprey Gabriel Godoy Peter Schofield John A Smith Christian Chenal Laurent Balland-Poirier Philippe Clément Pierre-Yves Samyn Shelagh Manton Peter Kupfer Andy Brown Stephen Buck Iain Roberts Hazel Russman Barbara M. Tobias Jared Kobos Martin Saffron Feedback Please direct any comments or suggestions about this document to the Documentation Team’s mailing list: [email protected] Note Everything you send to a mailing list, including your email address and any other personal information that is written in the message, is publicly archived and cannot be deleted. Publication date and software version Published December 2019. Based on LibreOffice 6.2. Documentation for LibreOffice is available at https://documentation.libreoffice.org/en/ Contents Copyright.....................................................................................................................................2 Preface..................................................................................................................................8 Who is this book for?...................................................................................................................9 What's in this book?.....................................................................................................................9 Help system.................................................................................................................................9 What you see may be different...................................................................................................11 Using LibreOffice on macOS......................................................................................................12 What are all these things called?...............................................................................................12 Frequently asked questions.......................................................................................................13 What’s new in LibreOffice Calc 6.2?..........................................................................................14 Chapter 1 Introducing Calc...............................................................................................15 What is Calc?.............................................................................................................................16 Spreadsheets, sheets, and cells................................................................................................16 Calc main window......................................................................................................................16 Creating, opening, and saving spreadsheets.............................................................................22 Password protection..................................................................................................................26 Navigating within spreadsheets.................................................................................................26 Selecting items in a spreadsheet...............................................................................................29 Working with columns and rows.................................................................................................31 Working with sheets...................................................................................................................33 Viewing Calc..............................................................................................................................35 Using the Navigator...................................................................................................................37 Using document properties........................................................................................................39 Chapter 2 Entering, Editing, and Formatting Data.........................................................41 Introduction................................................................................................................................42 Entering data.............................................................................................................................42 Speeding up data entry..............................................................................................................46 Merging and splitting cells..........................................................................................................50 Sharing content between sheets................................................................................................50 Validating cell contents..............................................................................................................51 Editing data................................................................................................................................54 Formatting data..........................................................................................................................59 AutoFormat of cells and sheets..................................................................................................64 Using themes.............................................................................................................................65 Value highlighting.......................................................................................................................65 Using conditional formatting.......................................................................................................66 Hiding and showing data............................................................................................................70 Sorting records..........................................................................................................................77 Find and replace........................................................................................................................79 Chapter 3 Creating Charts and Graphs...........................................................................82 Introduction................................................................................................................................83 Chart Wizard..............................................................................................................................83 Contents | 3 Sidebar......................................................................................................................................89 Modifying charts.........................................................................................................................91 Selecting and moving chart elements........................................................................................95 Changing chart type...................................................................................................................96 Titles, subtitles, and axis names................................................................................................96 Legends.....................................................................................................................................98 Formatting chart backgrounds...................................................................................................99 Data series...............................................................................................................................100 Axes.........................................................................................................................................107 Data labels...............................................................................................................................114 Grids........................................................................................................................................118 3D charts..................................................................................................................................119 Trend lines...............................................................................................................................122 Error bars.................................................................................................................................127 Adding drawing obJects to charts.............................................................................................130 Resizing, moving, and positioning charts.................................................................................131 Selecting multiple charts..........................................................................................................135 Changing overall appearance of charts....................................................................................135