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

by Jacek Artymiak
September 2011
Beginner
140 pages
3h 40m
English
Apress
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Giving Cells Names

Although addresses are a very powerful mechanism for writing formulas, they are difficult to remember. Luckily, there is a way to make your life easier. OpenOffice.org Calc lets you name each cell or whole groups of cells and use those names instead of addresses. This is how you go about doing it:

  1. Select the cell you want to name.
  2. Choose Insert images Names images Define.
  3. Type the cell name (such as Total) into the Name field in the Define Names dialog box (see Figure 2-2).

    Figure 2-2. Naming blocks of cells

  4. The names must begin with ...
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