LibreOffice-Calc-on-BOSS-Linux/C3/Formulas-and-Functions/English
Resources for recording Formulas and Functions
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Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial - LibreOffice Calc Formulas and Functions |
Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on Formulas and Functions in LibreOffice Calc. |
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Learning Objectives
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In this tutorial we will learn about:
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System Requirements Here we are using:
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Here we are using GNU/Linux as our operating system and LibreOffice Suite version 3.3.4.
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Conditional Operator
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We have already learnt to apply the basic arithmetic operators like addition,subtraction and average on data. Now, let’s learn about a few other useful operators. |
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Conditional Operators,
TRUE or FALSE. |
One of the most commonly used operator is the Conditional Operator.
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Open “Personal-Finance-Tracker.ods” | Let’s open “Personal-Finance-Tracker.ods”. |
Point to the heading “Cost” and point to the prices that are listed in the spread sheet. | Here, under the heading “Cost”, we have listed the prices of several items.
Let’s apply conditional operators on them and analyse the results. |
Click on cell “B10”.
Type “Condition Result” inside it. |
Let’s click on the cell referenced as “B10” and type “Condition Result” inside it. |
Click on cell “C10”. | Now, click on the cell referenced as “C10”.
The condition’s result will be applied and displayed in this cell. |
Point to the heading “House Rent” and “6000”.
Then point to the heading “Electricity Bill” and “800”. |
Note, that the cost of “House Rent” is rupees 6,000.
The cost for the “Electricity Bill” is rupees 800. |
Point to “6000”
Then Point to the “800”. |
The cost of “House Rent” is more than that of “Electricity Bill”.
We can apply different conditions on them and check the results. |
Click on cell “C10”. | Click on the cell referenced as “C10”. |
Type =C3>C4
Press “Enter” Point to C3 and then point to C4 Point to “TRUE” |
In this cell, type the first condition as “is equal to C3 greater than C4 ” and press the “Enter” key.
Since the value in cell C3 is greater than the value in cell C4, the result we get is “TRUE”. |
Edit statement to =C3<C4
Press “Enter”
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Now let us change this conditional statement to “is equal to C3 less than C4”
Press “Enter”. The result we get is “FALSE”. |
In the same manner, you can apply other conditional statements and study the results.
These statements are very useful when dealing with large amounts of data. | |
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If and Or Condition Use the If and Or condition
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You can also use the “If and Or” condition on data
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Click on cell “C10”
Type =IF(C3>C4, “Positive”, “Negative”) |
Let’s click on the cell referenced as “C10” and type,
“ is equal to IF” and within braces, “C3 greater than C4” comma, within double quotes “Positive” comma and again within double quotes “Negative”. |
Point to C3 then point to C4 | This means if the value in cell C3 is greater than the value in cell C4, “Positive” will be displayed
or else “Negative” will be displayed.. |
Press “Enter”. | Now press “Enter”. |
Point to “Positive”
Point to C3 then point to C4 |
Notice, that the result is “Positive” since rupees 6000 is greater than rupees 800. |
Change statement to =IF(C3<C4,”Positive”,”Negative”)
Press “Enter”. |
Now, in the condition statement let’s change “greater than” to “less than” and press the “Enter” key. |
Point to “Negative”.
Point to C3 and then to C4 |
Note, that the result is now “Negative”, as the value in cell C3 is greater than the value in cell C4. |
You can also see the change in result, if we change the data in the cells C3 and C4. | |
Click on the cell “C10”. | The result which is displayed now is “Negative”. |
Increase the value in C4 to “7000”.
Press “Enter”. |
Now, let us increase the value in cell C4 to “7000” and press the “Enter” key. |
Point to “Positive” | The result automatically changes to “Positive”. |
Decrease the value in C4 to “800”.
Press “Enter” |
Again, let’s decrease the value in cell C4 to “800”.
And press the “Enter” key. |
Point to “Negative” | The result again automatically changes to “Negative”. |
Delete the changes made | Now, let us delete the changes made. |
Next, let’s learn a few arithmetic and statistic functions. | |
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Arithmetic Functions Basic arithmetic functions include
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Basic arithmetic functions include
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Now let’s perform some operations to check how the Sum, Product and the Quotient functions work. | |
Select “Sheet 3”. | First let’s select “Sheet 3”. |
Enter the numbers “50”,”100” and ”150” within the cells referenced “B1”, “B2” and “B3” respectively. | Enter the numbers “50”,”100” and ”150” within the cells referenced “B1”, “B2” and “B3” respectively. |
Click on the cell “A4” and type “SUM”. | Click on the cell “A4” and type “SUM”. |
Click on the cell “B4” | Click on the cell “B4”.
We shall compute the result in this cell. |
Type in the cell =SUM(B1,B2,B3)
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Type “is equal to “SUM”, and within the braces, B1 comma B2 comma B3.
Press Enter.
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Point to the result “300”. | Notice the result shows “300”.
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You can also enter a range of cells like this | |
Click on B4
Type in the cell =SUM(B1:B3) Press Enter. |
Click on “B4” again.
Now, within the braces, instead of B1 comma B2 comma B3, type B1 colon B3 Press Enter.
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Point to the result “300”. | Once again, the result shows “300” |
Click on on the cell “A5” and type “PRODUCT”. | Now let’s click on the cell “A5” and type “PRODUCT”. |
Click on the cell “B5” | Click on the cell “B5”. |
Type in the cell =PRODUCT(B1:B3)
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Here type “is equal to “PRODUCT”, and within the braces, B1 colon B3.
Press Enter. |
Point to the result “750000”. | Notice the result shows “7,50,000”. |
Now let’s see how Quotient works. | |
Click on the cell referenced “A6” and type in that, “QUOTIENT”. | Click on the cell referenced “A6” and type “QUOTIENT”. |
Click on the cell “B6”. | Now click on the cell “B6”. We shall use this cell to compute the result. |
Type =QUOTIENT(B2,B1)
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And type “is equal to QUOTIENT”, and within the braces, B2 comma B1.
Press Enter. |
Point to the result “2”.
Point to the “100” and then to “50”. |
You will get the result as “2”. That is because “100” divided by “50” gives 2.
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Similarly, we can perform various arithmetic operations in Calc. | |
Now, let’s learn how to implement Statistic Functions. | |
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Statistic Functions Statistical functions are useful
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Click on sheet 1. | First, let us click on sheet 1. |
Let’s see how to find the minimum, the maximum and the median costs, using statistical functions. | |
Click on cell C10. | Let’s click on the cell referenced as “C10” where we will be displaying the result. |
Point to the heading “Cost” and point to the prices that are listed. | Under the heading “Cost”, we have very few entries. |
Point to 300. | The minimum cost is rupees 300. |
Point to 6000. | The maximum cost is rupees 6000. |
These are the results which should be displayed when we use their functions. | |
Click on cell C10.
Type “=MAX(C3:C7)” |
In the cell “C10” let’s type “is equal to MAX” and within braces “C3” colon “C7”. |
Press “Enter”. | Now press the “Enter” key. |
Point to “6000” in the result. | Notice, that the result is “6000”, which is the maximum value in the column. |
Replace “MAX” with “MIN”
Press “Enter” |
Now, let’s replace the term “MAX” in the statement with “MIN”.
And press the “Enter” key. |
Point to “300” | Note, that the result is “300” which is the minimum amount in the Cost column. |
Replace “MIN” with “MEDIAN”.
Press “Enter”. |
To find the median value, replace the term “MIN” with “MEDIAN”.
And press the “Enter” key. |
Point to “800” | The result shows “800”, which is the median cost in the column. |
Similarly, you can use other statistical functions on data and analyze them accordingly. | |
Delete the changes in this cell | Let us delete the changes in this cell. |
Now, let’s learn how to round off numbers.
Let us make few changes under the heading, “Cost”. | |
Change “6000” to “6000.34” Change “600” to “600.4” change “300” to “300.3” |
We shall change:
“6000” to “6000.34” “600” to “600.4” ”300” to “300.3”. |
Click on B11.
Type “ROUNDING OFF” |
Now, click on the cell referenced as “B11” and type the heading “ROUNDING OFF”. |
Click on C11 | Click on the cell referenced as “C11” where we will find the total of the items under the heading “Cost”. |
Type “=SUM(C3:C7)”
Press “Enter” |
In the cell C11 let’s type “is equal to SUM” and within braces “C3” colon “C7”.
Now, press the Enter key. |
Point to “9701.4” | Notice, that the total is “9701.04”.
Now suppose we don’t want any decimal places in our result. The best solution is to round off the result to the nearest whole number. |
Click on cell C11. | Let us click on the cell with the total “9701.04”. |
Type “=ROUND(SUM(C3:C7))”
Press “Enter” |
Type “is equal to ROUND”,open brace “SUM” and again within braces “C3” colon “C7”.
Close the brace. Press the Enter key. |
Point to “9701” | You see, that the result is now “9701”, which is “9701.04” rounded of to the nearest whole number.
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Rounding off, can also be done to either the lower whole number or the higher number. | |
Click on cell C11.
Edit “ROUND” to “ROUNDUP”. Press “Enter”. |
Let’s click on the cell with the result and edit the term “ROUND” to “ROUNDUP”.
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Point to “9702” | You see that the result is now “9702” which is the higher whole number. |
Click on cell C11
Edit “ROUNDUP” to “ROUNDDOWN”. Press “Enter” |
In order to round off to the lower whole number, change the term “ROUNDUP” to “ROUNDDOWN”
And press the “Enter” key. |
Point to “9701” | The result is now “9701” which is the lower whole number.
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Undo the changes | Let us undo these changes in order to get our “Personal-Finance-Tracker.ods” to its original form. |
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SUMMARY
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This brings us to the end of this Spoken Tutorial on LibreOffice Calc.
To summarize, we learned about:
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