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Chapter 12: Word Processing and More with OpenOffice.org
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Table 12-3
Button or Item
Name Box
Function
Wizard
Sum
Function
Input Line
The OpenOffice.org Calc Formula Bar
What You Can Do
Displays the name of the current cell. You can also assign a
name to a group of cells for future reference in your spreadsheet.
Click to open the Function Wizard dialog box and browse to find
the particular spreadsheet function you’re looking for.
Click to start a SUM (addition) function in the Input Line.
Click to place an equal sign (=) in the Input Line to signal that
you’re about to enter a function.
Assign values or enter functions to fill a spreadsheet cell.
The spreadsheet area is where you work on your spreadsheet. Just pick a cell
and start typing. You can also access a Formatting shortcut menu by rightclicking
in the document section.
Working with Calc files
Like the Writer package, the Calc package allows you to read and write your
document in many different formats:
✓ OpenDocument Spreadsheet (ODS) format: A proposed standard document
format for spreadsheets.
✓ OpenOffice.org 1.0 Spreadsheet (OTS) format: The older OpenOffice 1.0
spreadsheet format.
✓ Data Interchange Format (DIF): A text-file format used to import and
export spreadsheets between dissimilar spreadsheet programs.
✓ dBase (DBF): This option exports the spreadsheet data into a dBase
database file.
✓ Microsoft Excel 97/2000/XP (XLS) format: The standard Microsoft Excel
spreadsheet formats used by the most popular versions of Excel.
The current version of OpenOffice.org doesn’t support the Excel 2007
(.xlsx) format. However, if you have a copy of Excel 2007, you can convert
a spreadsheet in that format into a standard .xls format, which
you can read in OpenOffice.org.
✓ Microsoft Excel 95 (XLS) format: And the older Excel spreadsheet
format.