Beginning OpenOffice Calc: From Setting Up Simple Spreadsheets to Business Forecasting

eBook Details:

  • Paperback: 136 pages
  • Publisher: WOW! eBook; 1st edition (September 5, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1430231599
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430231592

eBook Description:

Beginning OpenOffice Calc: From Setting Up Simple Spreadsheets to Business Forecasting

OpenOffice Calc is the most powerful and widespread open source spreadsheet application in existence. It is the only real alternative to Excel. Jacek Artymiak is widely regarded as the authority on OpenOffice Calc. He takes you, step by step, from the interface and handling Calc files to working with data sources small and large. Artymiak then extends the reader’s skillset to data visualization, writing complex formulas and performing statistical analysis. Beginning OpenOffice Calc: From Setting Up Simple Spreadsheets to Business Forecasting allows you to gain confidence in the considered use of statistical formulas, but does not assume familiarity with another spreadsheet application.

Beginning OpenOffice Calc: From Setting Up Simple Spreadsheets to Business Forecasting is the only book on OpenOffice Calc you will ever need. Introduced by the foremost authority on Calc itself, Jacek Artymiak, the book guides the reader through a sequence of tutorials from the level of beginner to professional mastery.

This is a book for spreadsheet beginners as much as for anyone who would like start using open source applications in an office environment. Whether someone has used Excel in the past and wants to convert to Calc, or just wants to start using spreadsheets, this is the book for you.

What you’ll learn

  • Work with large sets of data
  • Process and format data
  • Write complex formulas using array functions
  • Collaborate on OpenOffice.org Calc files with the users of Calc, Excel and other spreadsheet software

Who this book is for

This is a book for spreadsheet beginners as much as for anyone who would like start using open source applications in an office environment. Whether someone has used Excel in the past and wants to convert to Calc, or just wants to start using spreadsheets, this is the book for you.

Beginning OpenOffice Calc: From Setting Up Simple Spreadsheets to Business Forecasting is the only book on OpenOffice Calc you will ever need. Introduced by the foremost authority on Calc itself, Jacek Artymiak, the book guides the reader through a sequence of tutorials from the level of beginner to professional mastery.

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