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Time | Narration |
00:00 | Welcome to the Spoken tutorial on LibreOffice Calc – Working with data. |
00:06 | In this tutorial we will learn about: |
0:10 | Speed up using Fill tools and Selection lists. |
00:14 | Sharing content between sheets. |
00:17 | Removing data, Replacing data, 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, lets 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 lets 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 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 content between sheets. |
05:52 | Calc enables a 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 lets 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 the “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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