Chapter 6. Getting to Know Calc
IN THIS CHAPTER:
38 About Sheets and Spreadsheets 39 Set Calc Options 40 Create a New Spreadsheet 41 Open an Existing Spreadsheet 42 Enter Simple Data into a Spreadsheet 43 About Moving Around Calc 44 About Calc Formulas 45 Copy and Move Formulas 46 Edit Cell Data 47 Print a Spreadsheet
This chapter introduces topics related to Calc, OpenOffice.org's spreadsheet program. A spreadsheet is a collection of one or more sheets . OpenOffice.org's Calc is to numbers what Writer is to text; Calc has been called a "word processor for numbers." With Calc, you can create numerically based proposals, business plans, business forms, accounting spreadsheets, and virtually any other document that contains calculated numbers. If you've heard of, or have seen, Microsoft Excel, OpenOffice.org's Calc is OpenOffice.org's answer to Excel…only without the price tag. KEY TERMSSpreadsheets
OpenOffice.org documents that hold one or more sheets (called workbooks in Microsoft Excel).Sheets
Numerical information presented in a tabular row and column format with text that labels and discusses the data (also, loosely, called spreadsheets ).23 About Writer Tables ). This chapter orients you to Calc by offering tasks that explain how to enter and edit data in Calc spreadsheets as well as how to navigate them.