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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
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