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    Use LibreOffice Calc: A Beginners Guide
    Use LibreOffice Calc: A Beginners Guide
    Use LibreOffice Calc: A Beginners Guide
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    Use LibreOffice Calc: A Beginners Guide

    By Thomas Ecclestone

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    LibreOffice Calc provides all power of expensive commercial programs without the cost.


    This short and sweet beginner’s guide to LibreOffice Calc takes you from your first steps to a competent user capable of adding, modifying and developing spreadsheets, doing analysis, creating formulas and charts.


    Calc can provide


    • Sophisticated analysis tools
    • Easy to use interface
    • Powerful chart, image, and drawing handling
    • Beautiful looking spreadsheets


    The book contains everything you need to produce personal and business spreadsheets quickly and with the minimum of effort.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTuring's Brain
    Release dateJan 11, 2015
    ISBN9781502228932
    Use LibreOffice Calc: A Beginners Guide

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      Book preview

      Use LibreOffice Calc - Thomas Ecclestone

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      Dedication

      ––––––––

      This book is dedicated to Kris Rusch for her advice over the years.

      1 First Steps

      Why Use LibreOffice Calc?

      People often need to work with sheets of figures. For example, where you want to create a basic balance sheet for a business plan, record your expenditures, create time sheets or expense applications.

      LibreOffice allows you to quickly create spreadsheets, edit them, and use a powerful array of tools to use them to model the world or run statistical analysis.

      And this book will take you from the first stages to a more advanced knowledge of how to use the program.

      Step One - Download

      ❶Go to http://www.LibreOffice.org/download/LibreOffice-fresh/ in your browser

      ❷Click on the version of LibreOffice that you want to download. The screenshots in this guide are taken from version 4.2.5 for windows.

      ❸If using chrome, the following box will appear at the bottom of the screen while the download is taking place. An estimate of how long the download will take is also shown.

      ❹Once the download is finished, the following will appear at the bottom of the screen in chrome.

      Other web browsers will vary.

      Congratulations, you're ready to run the installer!

      Step Two - Install

      ❶Click on the LibreOffice install program. You can either find it at the bottom of your screen in chrome:

      Or by opening File Explorer and selecting the download folder:

      Then double clicking on the installer

      ❷The LibreOffice installation wizard will appear

      Click on

      ❸In the next dialogue you will be given the option of a typical or custom install. I recommend simply using the typical install.

      If you are happy with the typical install click

      If you want to install a custom installation see How to run a custom installation below.

      ❹The next screen gives you a few more options. I recommend you click on install

      Selecting will install tools that LibreOffice provides for people with various disabilities.

      Selecting will mean that LibreOffice will start when the operating system starts. It's useful if you use LibreOffice almost all the time but may slow down loading the operating system.

      When you are happy with your options click . If you are not happy with any choice you've made you can go back to an earlier choice by clicking .

      ❺A user account dialogue will appear. Click Yes, Allow or Ok.

      ❻A progress dialogue will appear:

      Wait until it is finished

      and click on .

      ––––––––

      How to run a custom installation

      ❶Run the install procedure above, but in step ❸instead of selecting

      select

      Then click on

      ❷To find out if there is available space for the feature set you've selected click on

      The following dialogue will appear:

      Notice that the column Available shows how much space your disk contains, and Required shows how much disk space your installation has available.

      In the above example, we're good to go.

      Click to return to the custom installation dialogue.

      ❸To change the location the program will install to select change

      A location selection dialogue will appear:

      Clicking on the next to the look in location will provide you with a list of folders

      Which you can select from, going up or down as necessary.

      You can add a new folder by selecting

      Or you can simply type the file location in the box provided

      I don't recommend changing the file location UNLESS your default drive doesn't have enough room for the installation to work.

      ❸To install a new language

      Click on the next to

      A list of languages will appear:

      Scroll down to the language you want, and click on the

      Select if you want it installed on the local hard drive or

      if you want sub features such as spell check and custom fonts to be installed. I recommend this option.

      ❹To install non-English language dictionaries:

      Click on the next to

      Click on the next to

      Scroll down to the dictionary you want, and click on the by its name, for example:

      Select

      ❺Other Optional Components

      LibreOffice installs most components by default. The only exception is ActiveX components. If you don't need a particular component and you are low on space you can click the by its name and select but I do not recommend doing this. It will limit the facilities your LibreOffice installation can provide to you.

      Some people may need ActiveX controls, in which case you can select the by and

      . I don't recommend doing this unless you know that you will need ActiveX controls since it can slow down LibreOffice and it's an unusual requirement

      ❻Once happy with the options you have selected click on .  A File type dialogue will appear

      I recommend leaving the defaults on this, but simply check the box next to the file types you want to associate LibreOffice with

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