Advanced Spreadsheets
Advanced Spreadsheets Quiz
Advanced Spreadsheets – Security
Add, remove password protection for a spreadsheet: to open, to modify. To add password protection for a spreadsheet, click on ‘File’ from the main menu bar and from the resulting drop-down, click on ‘Save As’. This will open the ‘Save As’ dialog box. In this dialog box, we have a ‘Save with password’ checkbox. Check…
Read MoreAdvanced Spreadsheets – Accept, reject changes in a worksheet.
When the spreadsheet in which the changes have been made is sent to someone else, then they can accept or reject the changes and keep only the ones which are required. To accept or reject changes, simply click on ‘Edit’ from the main menu bar. From the drop-down, click on ‘Track Changes’, and from the…
Read MoreAdvanced Spreadsheets – Collaborative Editing
Tracking and Reviewing Turn on, off track changes. Track changes in a worksheet using a specified display view. Whenever we make changes to any document and send that document to someone else, then it might be possible that some of those changes might not be required by the other person. In such a case, it…
Read MoreAdvanced Spreadsheets – Run a macro
To run a macro, click on ‘Tools’ from the main menu bar. From the resulting drop-down menu, click on ‘Macros’, and from the sub-menu which gets displayed, click on ‘Run Macro’. This will open the ‘Macro Selector’ dialog box. In this dialog box, in the ‘Library’ field, we have the list of all the libraries.…
Read MoreAdvanced Spreadsheets – Automation
Record a simple macro like: change page setup, apply a custom number format, apply auto formats to a cell range, and insert fields in worksheet header, footer. A macro is a saved sequence of commands or keystrokes that are stored for later use. The LibreOffice macro language is very flexible, allowing automation of both simple…
Read MoreAdvanced Spreadsheets – Import delimited data from a text file.
There are some file types which are which are actually spreadsheet files, but in text format where cell contents are separated by a character. This character can be anything, say a comma or a colon. The extensions for such files are normally .csv or .txt and data from such files can be imported to Calc.…
Read MoreAdvanced Spreadsheets – Link data within a spreadsheet, between spreadsheets.
To link data between different sheets within a spreadsheet, select the cell on which you want to create the link. After this go to the input line and input ‘=’. After this, go to the sheet whose data you want to link to this sheet and select the cell which needs to be linked. Click…
Read MoreAdvanced Spreadsheets – Hyperlinks
Insert, edit, and remove a hyperlink. Hyperlinks are used to jump to a different location from within a spread sheet and this location can be in the same file, in different files and also some websites. To insert a hyperlink, click on ‘Insert’ from the main menu bar, and from the resulting drop-down menu, click…
Read MoreAdvanced Spreadsheets – Templates
Create a spreadsheet based on an existing template. To create a spreadsheet based on an already existing template, click on ‘File’ from main menu bar. From the resulting drop-down, click on ‘New’, and from the sub-menu, click on ‘Templates’. This will open the ‘Template Manager’ wizard. Under the ‘Spreadsheets’ tab, click on ‘My Templates’ or…
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