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Conclusion This chapter provides a brief overview on how to create libraries and modules, using the macro recorder, using macros as Calc functions, and writing your own macros without the macro recorder. Each topic deserves at least one chapter, and writing your own macros for Calc could easily fill an entire book. In other words, this is just the beginning of what you can learn! 294 LibreOffice 3.4 Calc Guide
Chapter 13 Calc as a Simple Database A guide for users and macro programmers
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LibreOffice 3.4 Calc Guide Using Sp
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Contents Copyright.................
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Who is this book for? Anyone who wa
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What are all these things called? T
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Chapter 1 Introducing Calc Using Sp
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Figure 2: Parts of the Calc window
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Moving toolbars To move a docked to
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Formatting toolbar In the Formattin
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Status bar The Calc status bar prov
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Figure 15: LibreOffice Start Center
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characters are used to separate the
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Figure 18. Saving a spreadsheet in
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Figure 20: Two levels of password p
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Using the Tab and Enter keys • Pr
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Figure 23. Sheet tab arrows Selecti
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Selecting sheets You can select eit
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• Click in an empty space at the
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Deleting sheets Figure 28: Move/Cop
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Figure 30 shows some frozen rows an
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Tip Splitting the screen vertically
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Tip Ranges, scenarios, pictures, an
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Chapter 2 Entering, Editing, and Fo
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Entering dates and times Select the
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Caution Choices that are not availa
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Using selection lists Selection lis
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Figure 46: Defining input help for
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Formatting multiple lines of text M
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• Apply any of the data types in
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Formatting the cell borders Figure
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Before you format a sheet with a th
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Hiding and showing data When elemen
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Figure 64: Select Mrs from the Titl
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Note Sorting records A maximum of e
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Using the Find toolbar The Find too
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Finding and replacing cell styles T
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Chapter 3 Creating Charts and Graph
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Next, open the Chart Wizard dialog
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Selecting data series Figure 78: Am
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Figure 80: Elements of 2D chart Fig
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Figure 94 on page 97 shows examples
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Formatting charts The Format menu h
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You can also use the Transparency p
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Figure 88: Setting the illumination
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The other tabs on the dialog, Line,
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To move a chart interactively: 1) C
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Figure 94: Pie charts As the Chart
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As shown in Figure 97, an area char
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Bubble charts A bubble chart is a v
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Figure 104: Adjusting data series f
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Chapter 4 Using Styles and Template
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Cell styles Similar to paragraph st
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Using the Apply Style list You can
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Category In Calc, the only option i
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Borders The Border and Background t
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Figure 114: Choosing to copy styles
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Creating a template You can create
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Caution Note If you choose Keep Old
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Associating a spreadsheet with a di
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Chapter 5 Using Graphics in Calc
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3) On the Insert Picture dialog, na
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Note Going the other way, from embe
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Figure 124: The Picture Toolbar Tab
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Caution Adjusting colors Applying L
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Resizing a bit-mapped (raster) imag
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Group To group images: 1) Select on
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If support for Asian languages has
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Calc provides several options to re
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Figure 133: The dialog to create or
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Quick printing Click the Print File
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Selecting sheets to print In additi
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2) Select the cell range using the
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Defining a custom print range In ad
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Printing options setup in page styl
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From here you can also set the marg
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Controlling PDF content and quality
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Figure 149: Initial View page of PD
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Security page of PDF Options dialog
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2) In your e-mail program, enter th
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Chapter 7 Using Formulas and Functi
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Figure 154: Error checking of formu
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Formula Description =AVERAGE(BloodS
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Taking this example further, if the
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Examples Figure 160: Reference Oper
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Figure 161: Relative references You
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Order of calculation Order of calcu
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Figure 163: Combining data from sev
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6) Click Yes. You have now copied t
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The formula then uses the IF functi
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Figure 170: Function Wizard after s
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Place a unique formula in each cell
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Figure 175: Division by zero soluti
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Simple statistics Another common us
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determined by the closest multiple
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Advanced functions As is common wit
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Important note Unfortunately, due t
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Figure 180: Import settings Creatin
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For example, if you drag region and
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listing of the individual entry. If
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Figure 190: Original Pivot Table (t
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In the Subtotals section of the Dat
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determined mainly by the type of va
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You can change the default names fo
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Figure 213: Options for a row or co
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Filtering To limit the Pivot Table
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Figure 220: Formula reference to a
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Figure 223: Second syntax variation
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Introduction Once you are familiar
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Creating subtotals Subtotals are im
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You will appreciate this is a tedio
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Figure 233: Click the plus buttons
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5) Optionally select or deselect th
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Tracking values in scenarios Figure
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Tip You may find it easier to mark
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Multiple operations across rows and
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Figure 243: Example setup for goal
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Appendix A Keyboard Shortcuts
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Shortcut Keys Effect Ctrl+Up Arrow
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Arrow key shortcuts Table 32. Arrow
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Appendix B Description of Functions
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Syntax Description ASINH(number) Re
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Syntax Description PRODUCT(number 1
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Syntax Description CUMIPMT_ADD(rate
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Syntax Description INTRATE(settleme
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Syntax Description PMT(rate; NPER;
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Syntax Description VDB(cost; salvag
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Syntax Description CHIINV(number; d
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Syntax Description INTERCEPT(data_Y
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Syntax Description RANK(value; data
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Caution Table 39: Data and time fun
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Syntax Description WORKDAY(start_da
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Syntax Description ISNA(value) Retu
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Syntax Description DVAR(database; d
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Syntax Description AREAS(reference)
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Syntax Description OFFSET(reference
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Syntax Description DECIMAL(text; ra
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Syntax Description T(value) Convert
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Syntax Description IMARGUMENT(compl
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Introduction to Calc error codes Ca
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General error codes The following t
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formatting 87 formatting 3D 89 grap
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INDEX 317 INDIRECT 316 informationa
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general options 145 multiple pages
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