Oops, forgot to cc the user. On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 12:41 +1000, Siva Moodley wrote: > I was a mad keen Openoffice supporter and told my friends and others > of the programme. I extolled the its virtues and removed MS from my > computer. > > However I am not sure that I was wise and should have stayed with what > I had. > > In Spreadsheet I cannot format. I cannot increment except in a very > limited way. The help is very unhelpful. > > I am using Ver 1.1.4. I also tried Beta 2 sometimes you refer to it > as Ver 1.1.79. How confusing. There is no decent book on the > programme. I bought both Open Office for Dummies and Solveig and > Haughland. The latter does not deal with the incrementing of my > choice. Neither deal with incrementing dates. This is very important > for a Spreadsheet. > > Please can you help in some way. I do not want to go back to MS. >
Well for one let me point you to http://documnentation.openoffice.org/ which has all kinds of HOW-TOs, Manuals, templates and references to other documentation on other projects and external. I would like to espeicially recommend http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/index.html. As to formatting in Calc, it can be done. To help you better we will have to know a bit more about the problem. i.e. what is it you are trying to do? For example, what do you mean by incrementing. My initial approach to increment in a column of cells would be to use a formula like =$A1+1 in cell A2 and so on. THere are other ways, as well, such as sortlists, that are described in the manuals. Hope this helps get you over the hump. -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
