29. Add a Chart or Spreadsheet to a Document
27 Insert Graphics in a Document
68 Add a Chart to a Spreadsheet
OpenOffice.org's spreadsheet program Calc produces excellent charts and graphs. In many documents, you'll need to include a chart and possibly a spreadsheet to make a point more clear. Business reports, for example, are full of charts, spreadsheets, and text, all working together to demonstrate the financial health of a company.
You'll find that copying charts and spreadsheets into a Writer document is extremely simple to do. Both require that you start in Calc, because Calc is the source of such charts and spreadsheets. All you need to do is select the chart or spreadsheet and drag or copy it into your document. Writer recognizes the copied chart or spreadsheet, and you can resize and format the chart or spreadsheet using Writer's tools.
NOTE
This task explains how to copy a
static chart or spreadsheet into Writerthat is, one that will not change if you change the original in Calc after copying to Writer. To keep a link to the original Calc spreadsheet, select
Edit, Paste Special, DDE Link to paste the chart or spreadsheet.