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TIME | NARRATION |
00:01 | Welcome to the spoken tutorial on Working with data in Calc. |
00:07 | In this tutorial, we will learn to:
Autofill data using Fill tools |
00:15 | Share the same content on all sheets of the same spreadsheet. |
00:22 | Remove data, replace data, change part of the data in a cell. |
00:29 | This tutorial is recorded using
Ubuntu Linux OS version 18.04 and LibreOffice Suite version 6.3.5 |
00:43 | Entering data into a spreadsheet can be very labor-intensive. |
00:49 | So Calc provides several tools for making it considerably easier. |
00:56 | The most basic ability is to drag and drop the contents of one cell to another with the mouse. |
01:05 | However Calc also has other tools for automating input, especially for repetitive data. |
01:14 | One such tool is the Fill tool. |
01:18 | This can input data into multiple sheets of the same spreadsheet in one go. |
01:26 | Open the Personal-Finance-Tracker.ods file. |
01:31 | In our file, let's copy the data under the heading Cost to the adjacent cells. |
01:39 | Click on the cell which contains the entry 6000 under Cost. |
01:45 | Hold the left mouse button, drag it till the end of the cell which contains the cost entry 2000. |
01:54 | Also select the cells adjacent to the right of the selected cells along with it. |
02:01 | In these adjacent cells we will copy the data. |
02:05 | Now release the left mouse button. |
02:09 | Next, click on the Sheet menu in the menu bar and go to the Fill Cells submenu. |
02:17 | Click on the Fill Right option from the submenu. |
02:22 | Alternatively, you can click on the dropdown of the Column icon in the Standard toolbar.
And then click Fill Right option |
02:34 | We see that the data under the heading Cost gets copied into the adjacent cells.
Let us undo the changes. |
02:45 | A more complex use of the Fill tool is used for filling some series as data in the sheets |
02:54 | Calc provides default lists for the full and abbreviated
Days of the week and The months of the year. |
03:04 | It also enables the users to create their own lists. |
03:10 | Now let’s insert a new heading named Days in our sheet. |
03:16 | Under this, we will display the seven days of the week automatically. |
03:22 | Select the first seven cells below the heading Days. |
03:27 | Now click on the Sheet menu in the menu bar and then on Fill Cells submenu. |
03:35 | Select Fill Series option from the submenu. |
03:40 | The Fill Series dialog box appears. |
03:44 | Now under Series Type, click on the AutoFill option. |
03:49 | In the Start value field, we’ll type the first day of the week, that is Sunday. |
03:57 | The Increment field is already set as 1. |
04:02 | Now click on the OK button. |
04:05 | We see that all the days are automatically displayed in the cells. |
04:11 | We can enter only weekdays and months by this method as these are pre-defined in Calc. |
04:20 | Let me demonstrate another method for auto-filling sequential data. |
04:26 | Type Sunday in another cell and press Enter. |
04:31 | This will shift the focus to the next cell in the column. |
04:36 | Go back to the cell where Sunday was typed. |
04:41 | We see a small black box at the bottom-right-hand corner of the cell. |
04:47 | Click on this box with the mouse. |
04:51 | Drag downwards till you see Saturday in the display box on the right.
Release the mouse button. |
05:01 | The cells get autofilled with the weekdays automatically. |
05:06 | This method works for all data that are sequential. |
05:11 | Let's undo these changes. |
05:15 | Next, we’ll create an autofill series of numbers by entering the start, end and increment values. |
05:24 | We will first delete the serial numbers already entered in the cells A2 to A8. |
05:33 | Now click on the Sheet in the menu bar.
Then on the Fill Cells and Fill Series option. |
05:45 | In the Fill Series dialog box, under Series Type click on the Linear option. |
05:53 | In the Start value field, we will type the first serial number, that is 1. |
06:00 | In the End value field, we will type the last value to be entered as 7. |
06:08 | Now we’ll set the Increment value as 1, if it is not already 1. |
06:15 | Then click on the OK button. |
06:19 | Observe the changes. |
06:22 | As an assignment, repeat the above steps with an increment value of 5. |
06:29 | Observe the changes and then undo them. |
06:34 | In all these cases, the Fill tool creates only a momentary connection between the cells. |
06:42 | Once they are filled, the cells have no further connection with one another. |
06:48 | In Calc the same data can be entered in the same cell location on multiple sheets. |
06:56 | This means, there’s no need to enter the same data on each sheet separately. |
07:04 | One can enter them in all the sheets at once. |
07:09 | Let’s learn how to do this. |
07:13 | In the Personal-Finance-Tracker.ods file, our entire data is on Sheet 1. |
07:20 | Now we want Sheet 2 and Sheet 3 to show the same data as in Sheet 1. |
07:29 | To do that, click on the Edit menu in the menu bar and then click on Select. |
07:37 | Now click on Select sheets. |
07:42 | The Select Sheets dialog box appears. |
07:46 | Using the Shift key, select the options Sheet 1, Sheet 2, and Sheet 3.
And then click on the OK button. |
07:58 | This takes us back to Sheet 1. |
08:02 | Now let's type something in Sheet 1. |
08:06 | For example, in cell F12 we’ll type “This will be displayed on multiple sheets”. |
08:16 | Now click on the Sheet 2 and the Sheet 3 tab one after the other. |
08:24 | We see that in each of the sheets, cell F12 displays the exact same data. |
08:32 | Let us undo these changes. |
08:36 | Next we will learn about different ways in which we can delete and edit data in cells. |
08:44 | To delete data without removing any of the existing cell formatting, first select the cell. |
08:52 | The data of the cell is displayed in the Input line field. |
08:57 | Click on the Input line once. |
09:00 | Now press the Backspace key on the keyboard. |
09:05 | The data gets deleted. |
09:08 | Let us undo these changes. |
09:12 | To replace data in a cell, select the cell and type over the old data. |
09:20 | The new data will retain the cell’s original formatting. |
09:25 | Let us undo these changes. |
09:29 | We can change part of the data in a cell also, without removing all the contents. |
09:37 | To do so, just double-click on the cell. |
09:42 | Then select the word Rent by double-clicking on it.
Now type Expenses and press Enter. |
09:53 | Observe the changes. |
09:56 | Let us undo these changes. |
10:00 | Lastly, save and close the file. |
10:04 | This brings us to the end of this tutorial. Let us summarize. |
10:11 | In this tutorial, we learnt to: |
10:14 | Autofill data using Fill tools. |
10:18 | Share the same content on all sheets of the same file. |
10:24 | And Remove data, replace data, change part of the data in a cell. |
10:32 | As an assignment
Open “spreadsheet-practice.ods” file. |
10:38 | Create a Month column besides Time. |
10:42 | Use the Fill Series option to auto-fill till the month of May. |
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11:20 | This tutorial was originally contributed by DesiCrew Solutions Private Limited in 2011.
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