LibreOffice-Calc-on-BOSS-Linux/C2/Working-with-data/English-timed

Time	Narration
00:00	Welcome to the Spoken tutorial on LibreOffice Calc – Working with data.
00:06	In this tutorial, we will learn about:
00:10	Speed up using Fill tools and Selection lists.
00:14	Sharing content between sheets.
00:17	Removing data, Replacing data and Changing part of a data.
00:23	Here, we are using GNU/Linux as our operating system and LibreOffice Suite version 3.3.4.
00:33	Entering data into a spreadsheet can be very labor-intensive but Calc provides several tools for making it considerably easier.
00:43	The most basic ability is to drag and drop the contents of one cell to another with a mouse.
00:50	But Calc also includes several other tools for automating input, especially of repetitive material.
00:57	These tools are namely- “Fill tool”, “Selection lists”.
01:01	These can input information into multiple sheets of the same document.
01:06	We will learn about each one of them, one by one.
01:10	Let us open our “Personal-Finance-Tracker.ods” file.
01:14	The Fill tool is a useful method for duplicating the contents in the sheet.
01:20	In our “Personal-Finance-Tracker.ods” file, let's say we want to copy the data under the heading “Cost” to the adjacent cells.
01:30	Then, first select all the data which needs to be copied by clicking on the cell which contains the entry “6000”.
01:38	Now, holding down the left mouse button, drag the mouse till the end of the cell which contains the cost entry “2000”.
01:47	Also, select the cells where we want to copy the data.
01:51	Now, release the left mouse button.
01:54	Click on the “Edit” option in the Menu bar and then click on the “Fill” option.
02:00	In the pop-up menu, click on the “Right” option.
02:04	You see that the data under the heading “Cost” gets copied to the adjacent cells.
02:10	Let us undo the changes.
02:13	A more complex use of the Fill tool is to use it for filling some series as data in sheets.
02:21	Calc provides default lists for the full and abbreviated days of the week and the months of the year.
02:28	It also enables the user to create his own lists.
02:35	Now let's insert a new heading named “Days” in our sheet.
02:39	Under this, we will display the seven days of the week automatically.
02:43	Select the first seven cells below the heading “Days”.
02:48	Now, click on the “Edit” option in the Menu bar and go to the “Fill” option.
02:54	Click on the “Series” option in the menu.
02:58	You see that a dialog box appears with the heading as “Fill Series”.
03:02	Now under the heading, “Series type”, click on the “AutoFill” option.
03:08	In the “Start value” field, we type our first day of the week, that is, “Sunday”.
03:14	The increment is already set as “1”.
03:16	Now click on the OK button.
03:18	You see that the days are automatically entered into the cells.
03:24	You can enter only weekdays, month or year by the same method as they are pre-defined in Calc.
03:32	Another method for auto-filling of sequential data is as follows-
03:37	type “Sunday” in a cell and press Enter. This will shift the focus to the next cell in the column.
03:46	Go back to the cell where “Sunday” was typed. You will now see a small black box at the bottom-right-hand corner of the cell.
03:56	Click on this box with the mouse.
03:58	Drag it downwards till you see "Saturday" in the display box on the right.
04:04	Release the mouse button.
04:07	The cells get filled with the weekdays automatically.
04:10	This trick works for all data that are sequential. Let us undo the changes.
04:17	You can also create a one-time fill series for numbers by entering the start, end and the increment values.
04:25	To demonstrate this, we will first delete the serial numbers already entered in the cells A1 to A7.
04:34	After deleting the numbers, select the cells referenced as A2 to A7 again.
04:40	Now click on the Edit' in the Menu bar and then on Fill and Series option.
04:47	A dialog-box appears in front of us. Now click on the Linear option, under the heading Series type, if it is not selected by default.
04:57	In the Start value field, we will type the first serial number, that is, “1”.
05:03	In the End value field, we will type the last value to be entered as “6”.
05:08	Now, we set the Increment value as “1” and finally click on the OK button.
05:15	We see that the cells automatically get filled with the sequential serial numbers.
05:21	In all these cases, the Fill tool creates only a momentary connection between the cells. Once they are filled, the cells have no further connection with one another.
05:33	Apart from Fill tools, there is one more speed up tool called “Selection lists” which is limited to using only text.
05:40	We will discuss it in the later tutorials of this series.
05:45	After learning about the “Fill tools” and “Selection lists” we will now learn how to share contents between sheets.
05:52	Calc enables the user to enter the same information in the same cell on multiple sheets.
05:58	This means, instead of entering the same list on each sheet individually, you can enter it in all the sheets at once.
06:08	In our “Personal-Finance-Tracker.ods” file, our entire data is on “Sheet 1”.
06:15	Now, we want “Sheet 2” as well as “Sheet 3” to show the same data as in “Sheet 1”.
06:21	So, we click on the Edit option in the Menu bar and then click on the Sheet option.
06:28	Now, click on Select.
06:31	Now, in the dialog-box which appears, using Shift key we select the options “Sheet 1”, “Sheet 2” and “Sheet 3”.
06:40	And then click on the OK button.
06:43	This takes us back to “Sheet 1”.
06:46	Now, let's enter some data in “Sheet 1”.
06:50	For example-in the cell referenced as F12, we’ll type: “This will be displayed on multiple sheets”.
06:58	Now, click on the “Sheet 2” and “Sheet 3” tab one after the other.
07:03	We see that in each of these sheets, the cell referenced as F12 contains the same data.
07:10	Let us undo the changes.
07:12	Next, we will learn about different ways in which we can delete and edit data in the cells.
07:19	To delete data without removing any of the formatting of the cell, just select a cell.
07:26	You see that the data of the cell is displayed in the “Input line” field.
07:31	Now, press the Backspace button on the keyboard.
07:35	You see that the data gets deleted.
07:37	Let us undo the changes.
07:41	To replace the data in a cell, simply select the cell and type over the old data.
07:47	The new data will retain the original formatting. Let us undo the changes.
07:53	In order to change a part of the data in a cell, without removing all of the contents, just double-click on the cell.
08:02	Now, by navigating the cursor, you can edit the cell as per your requirement.
08:08	Let us undo the changes.
08:10	This brings us to the end of the Spoken Tutorial on LibreOffice Calc.
08:15	To summarize, we learned about:
08:17	Speed up using Fill tools and Selection lists.
08:21	Sharing content between sheets.
08:24	Removing data, Replacing data, Changing a part of the data.
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