LibreOffice-Suite-Calc/C2/Working-with-Cells/English-timed
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00:00 | Welcome to the Spoken tutorial on LibreOffice Calc – Working with Cells. |
00:06 | In this tutorial, we will learn: |
00:08 | * How to enter numbers, text, numbers as text, date and time in a spreadsheet. |
00:16 | * How to use the Format Cells dialog-box. |
00:19 | * How to navigate between cells and in between sheets. |
00:23 | * How to select items in rows, columns and sheets. |
00:29 | We will be using Ubuntu 10.04 as our operating system and LibreOffice Suite version 3.3.4. |
00:39 | So, let us first learn how to enter data in the cells. |
00:43 | We shall open our "personal finance tracker.ods" file. |
00:49 | You can type any text in a particular cell by simply clicking on the cell and then typing the text, using the keyboard. |
00:59 | The text is left-aligned, by default. One can change the alignment by clicking any one of the alignment tabs on the Formatting Bar. |
01:08 | Let's undo this. |
01:11 | Now, click on the cell corresponding to 'A1' in the spreadsheet. |
01:15 | You see that the selected cell gets highlighted. |
01:20 | Here we have already typed the column headings. |
01:24 | Under the heading Items, we shall type the names of a few items one below the other as- 'Salary', 'House rent', 'Electricity bill', 'Phone bill', 'Laundry' and 'Miscellaneous'. |
01:38 | In order to enter numbers in the cell, click on the cell and type in the numbers. |
01:43 | To enter a negative number, either type a minus sign in front of it or enclose it in parentheses. |
01:53 | By default, numbers are right-aligned and negative numbers have a leading minus symbol. |
02:01 | Let us undo the changes. |
02:04 | Now, under the Serial Number heading, denoted as "SN" in our "personal finance tracker.ods" spreadsheet, we want the serial number of each item one below the other. |
02:17 | So, click on the cell corresponding to A2 and enter numbers as 1, 2, 3, one below the other. |
02:27 | In order to auto-fill the serial numbers, click on the cell A4. A little black box is visible at the bottom-right corner of the cell. Drag it till cell A7 and release the mouse button. |
02:42 | You will see that the cells A5 till A7 get populated with the subsequent serial numbers. |
02:51 | After entering the serial number of the items, we will now enter the cost of each item under the heading Cost. |
02:59 | So, we click on the cell referenced as C3 and type the expense for House rent as Rupees 6000. |
03:07 | Now, what if we want to precede the number with the Rupee symbol? |
03:11 | Lets say, we want to enter Rupees 800 for Electricity bill. So, right-click on cell C4 and click on Format Cells option. |
03:23 | This will open the Format Cells dialog-box. |
03:27 | The first tab is Numbers. Click on it, if not already selected. |
03:32 | Various categories can be seen under Category such as Number, Percent, Currency, Date, Time and many more. |
03:41 | Let's select Currency. |
03:44 | Now, under the Format option, click on the down-arrow. This will display the various currency symbols from across the world. |
03:53 | Let's scroll up and select INR Rupees English India. By default, Rupee 1234 is selected in the drop-down below. |
04:04 | You can see a preview of it, in the small preview area on the right. |
04:10 | Under Options, we have the option to add the number of Decimal places and the number of Leading zeroes that we want. |
04:20 | Notice that as we increase the number of zeroes, the selection under Format has changed to Rupees 1,234 decimal zero zero, indicating 2 decimal places. |
04:35 | Notice the change is displayed in the preview area. |
04:40 | Click on Thousands separator to add the comma separator for each thousand. Once again, notice the change in the preview area. |
04:50 | One can also change the font style by clicking on the Font tab. It has various options for Font, Typeface and Size. |
05:00 | Explore Font Effects and the other tabs to learn more about them. |
05:05 | We will learn about the options in the Alignment tab in another tutorial later. |
05:11 | Let's click on OK. |
05:15 | Let's type 800 and press Enter. You will notice that the number 800 is represented as 'Rupees 800' with 2 decimal places. |
05:26 | Now, let's select cells C5 to C7. Hold the Ctrl key and select cell G2 also. Notice, all the selected cells are highlighted. |
05:39 | Right-click on any of the highlighted cells and select Format Cells. |
05:46 | Choose the same options as before. Click on OK. |
05:51 | Now, we type the expense on all the other items, one below the other, as- Rupees 600 for 'Phone bill', Rupees 300 as 'Laundry' charges and Rupees 2000 as other 'Miscellaneous' charges. |
06:06 | Under the heading Accounts, we type the salary for the month as Rupees 30000. |
06:13 | For entering date in Calc, select the cell and type the date. |
06:18 | You can separate the date elements with a forward slash or a hyphen or use text such as 10 October 2011. |
06:27 | Calc recognizes a variety of date formats. |
06:32 | Alternately, one can right-click on the cell and choose Format Cells option. |
06:38 | Choose Date under Category and the desired format under Format. I will choose 12, 31, 1999. Notice the display in the preview area. |
06:51 | Also, the Format code is displayed below as MM, DD and YYYY. One can change the Format code as required. |
07:02 | I will type DD, MM and YYYY. Notice the change in the preview area. Click on OK. |
07:12 | For entering time in Calc, select the cell and type the time. |
07:18 | You can separate time elements with colons such as 10 colon 43 colon 20. |
07:24 | Alternately, one can right-click on the cell and choose Format Cells option. |
07:31 | Choose Time under category and the desired format under Format. I will choose 13, 37, 46. Notice the display in the preview area. |
07:43 | Also, the Format code is displayed below as HH:MM:SS. One can change the 'Format code' as required. I will type HH:MM. |
07:57 | Notice the change in the preview area.
Click on OK. |
08:03 | Let us undo the changes. |
08:06 | After learning how to write text, numbers and dates in Calc, we will now learn how to navigate within a spreadsheet from cell to cell and from sheet to sheet. |
08:17 | So, we will first see how we can navigate from cell to cell within a spreadsheet. |
08:23 | You can simply access a particular cell by clicking on it with the cursor. |
08:29 | You see that the particular cell gets highlighted. |
08:32 | Another method of accessing a particular cell is by using a cell reference. |
08:38 | Click on the little black down arrow just to the right of the Name Box. |
08:43 | Now, type the cell reference of the cell you want to go to and press Enter . |
08:49 | You can even click into the Name box, delete the existing cell reference and type in the cell reference you want and press Enter. |
08:58 | Next we will learn about how to navigate between cells in a spreadsheet. |
09:03 | The first method of navigation between cells is by using the cursor. |
09:09 | To move the focus using the cursor, simply move the cursor to the cell where you want the focus to be and click the left mouse button. |
09:18 | This changes the focus to the new cell. |
09:22 | This method is most useful when the two cells are a large distance apart. |
09:28 | Another method of navigation between cells is- * Tab to go to the next cell in a row, |
09:35 | Shift + Tab to go to the previous cell in a row, |
09:39 | Enter to go to the next cell in a column, |
09:42 | Shift + Enter to go to the previous cell in a column. |
09:46 | Next, we will learn how to navigate between different spreadsheets in Calc using the keyboard. |
09:53 | For accessing the sheet to the right of the active sheet, press the Control plus Page Down keys simultaneously. |
10:00 | In order to access the sheet to the left of the current sheet, press the Control plus Page Up keys simultaneously. |
10:08 | You can also navigate between sheets using the cursor. |
10:13 | Detailed information on this is available in the tutorial 'Working with Sheets'. |
10:19 | If you have a number of sheets then some of the sheet tabs may be hidden behind the horizontal scroll-bar at the bottom of the screen. |
10:28 | If this is the case then the four buttons at the bottom-left of the sheet tabs can move the tabs into view. |
10:36 | Let us undo the changes. |
10:39 | For selecting a range of contiguous cells with the cursor, first click in a cell. |
10:45 | Now press and hold down the left mouse button. |
10:48 | Move the cursor around the screen and once the desired block of cells is highlighted, release the left mouse button. You see that the selected cells are highlighted. |
11:00 | In order to select multiple columns or rows that are contiguous, click on the first column or row in the group. |
11:09 | Now, hold down the Shift key. |
11:12 | Click the last column or row in the group. |
11:15 | To select multiple columns or rows that are not contiguous, click on the first column or row in the group. |
11:23 | Hold down the Control key and click on all of the subsequent columns or rows while holding down the Control key. |
11:31 | For selecting multiple contiguous sheets, click on the sheet tab for the first desired sheet. |
11:39 | Now, move the cursor over the sheet tab for the last desired sheet. |
11:43 | Hold down the Shift key and click on the sheet tab. |
11:48 | All the tabs between these two sheets will turn white which indicates that they are all selected. |
11:56 | Any actions that you perform will now affect all highlighted sheets. |
12:01 | For selecting multiple non- contiguous sheets, click on the sheet tab for the first sheet. |
12:08 | Now, move the cursor over the third sheet tab. |
12:12 | Hold down the Control key and click on the sheet tab. |
12:16 | The selected tabs will turn white and any actions that you perform, will now affect all highlighted sheets. |
12:24 | This brings us to the end of the Spoken Tutorial on LibreOffice Calc. |
12:30 | To summarize, we learned about: |
12:33 | * How to enter numbers, text , numbers as text, date and time in Calc. |
12:40 | * How to use the Format Cells dialog-box. |
12:43 | How to navigate between cells and between sheets. |
12:47 | How to select items in rows, columns and sheets. |
12:52 | COMPREHENSIVE ASSIGNMENT- |
12:55 | Open "Spreadsheet Practice.ods". |
12:58 | Under Serial Numbers, type the serial number from 1 to 5, one below the other. |
13:04 | Navigate between the cells using keys. |
13:09 | Select all the items under Serial Number. |
13:13 | Add a column for Date and Time. |
13:16 | Enter some values in them using the Format Cells dialog-box options. |
13:21 | Watch the video available at the following link. |
13:24 | It summarizes the Spoken Tutorial project. |
13:27 | If you do not have good bandwidth, you can download and watch it. |
13:32 | The Spoken Tutorial project team: |
13:35 | * Conducts workshops using spoken tutorials. |
13:38 | * Gives certificates for those who pass an online test. |
13:41 | For more details, please write to:
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13:48 | Spoken Tutorial project is a part of the Talk to a Teacher project. |
13:52 | It is supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India. |
14:00 | More information on this mission is available at: |
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14:16 | Thanks for joining. |