Spreadsheet component of the LibreOffice suite
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LibreOffice - import CSV: have semicolon checked by default
When I import CSV data or copy it into a spreadsheet, the text import window shows up. There you can specify what separator character is used. By default, TAB is checked. All my imports use a ...
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Autocomplete only on demand in OpenOffice Calc
In Open-/Libreoffice Calc, it is possible to enable the auto-completion of cells. That means the cell is filled e.g. with a string that starts with the characters already typed. This may give unwanted ...
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How to do a “great circle” calculation in MS Excel or LibreOffice?
I got two columns with latitude and longitude values. I need to calculate the distance between the points in every row. I'm trying to use the haversine formula as seen here:
That's the so called ...
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LibreOffice: stop automatic formatting of text into a formula?
In LibreOffice, I'm entering some text into cells, which happens to look like a math problem:
-5 / -10 / -15
The program assumes I want to calculate this, and sticks an equals sign automatically in ...
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OpenOffice Calc - How to substitute multiple characters?
I need to substitute non-English characters in French words to the closest English charachers. For example:
"Combien ça coûte" Becomes "Combien ca coute"
I also need to remove some punctuation. Is ...
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How remove all characters after pattern in LibreOffice Calc
In LibreOffice Calc how can I use Regular Expressions to find and replace every character after a pattern, and remove the pattern itself.
Example:
123_2015970_etgn.jpg
124_2015971_etgn.png
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Is it possible to copy & paste a pivot table in a spreadsheet?
I have a spreadsheet where I use some pivot tables to summarize and highlight some relevant data.
Since I have to use multiple pivot tables, all with nearly the same data input but with slight ...
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How to color rows based on cell value in Open/Libre Office
How do you automatically set the background color of an entire row based on the value of a specific column in that row in Open/Libre Office? There are similar questions for Excel, but this doesn't ...
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Change border color in OpenOffice - macro
When I have table in Open Office and I´ve got there some values (for example 23 and 26) and I need circumscribe all numbers beteen this values, how can I do it in macro?
For your imagination, I post ...
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Open/LibreOffice Calc data “extend selection” stops at blank rows
I have a spreadsheet and have right clicked on a column header then selected Sort from menu. The dialog box provides an option to extend the selection, which I accept. The problem is that the ...
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Does libreoffice have a math concept like 'infinity'?
Does libreoffice calc have special numbers corresponding to -infinity and infinity similar to python's numpy?
They would obey rules like:
x = some number
infinity + x = infinity
-infinity + x = ...
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How to check if a date is in the future
I want to make a spreadsheet reporting daily and weekly goals for a certain quantity and their achievement, one reporting sheet per calendar week. Imagine that I open it on Wednesday, then I want to ...
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libreoffice what is a fast way to paste special > text and numbers only (aka paste special values)?
I copy and then paste values in excel quite a bit (when I use Excel). When I use LibreOffice you can do the same thing (see related question here) but it is oh so tedious!
It gets especially tedious ...
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Attempting to open TSV file in Libreoffice Calc results in being opened by Writer
I have been working with TSV files for months, but I have one file that refuses to be opened in LibreOffice Calc. It instead brings it up in writer. This behavior is consistent across command line and ...
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LibreOffice Calc - Search and replace merged cells
Is there any way to find merged cells with the Find & Replace dialog and replace the cell content in all of them?
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LibreOffice Calc - apply style to neighbouring cells
I have a column with data and I applied a style to it with the help of Conditional Formatting. I now wish to apply the outcome of that style to the neighbouring column that holds other data.
Here is ...
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How do I set the LibreOffice 4.0 Calc interface CTL font?
I use LibreOffice 4.0.x on Windows 7. When I was in Windows XP, the Hebrew font used in the Calc interface - for field values and for tab names for example - was Tahoma. Now it's David (or maybe David ...
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Libreoffice won't let me have a read-only ComboBox
I have a database table with some entries. I want to display all the fields of this table as a ComboBox. I want the user to be able to select this any entry in this ComboBox without modifying the ...
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Prevent “Import Options” Dialog When Copying Text From Webpage
Whenever I try to copy and paste text from a webpage into LibreOffice Calc, I get the following "Import Options" dialog that is very annoying to have to close every time.
Is there a way to set a ...
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Calculate conditional average on disjoint cells
I would like to know if libreoffice calc has the functionality to calculate an conditional average on disjoint cells. An example would be: Calculate the average for every second cell in Row1 if Row2 ...
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Getting date of last change as a cell value in Open Office Calc
I have a few Open Office spreadsheet files (let us call them source files), each containing the financial info of a particular office of ours. I also have a summary spreadsheet, that reads some key ...
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how to get Libre Office to adjust row height to accommodate text entry?
I need for LibreOffice to automatically adjust row height for text entries.
I have tried to acomplish this by checking the wrap text option, which I thought would be the solution, but it is not.
How ...
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Sum up to N highest-value out of a series?
I have a spreadsheet where each row is a set of numerical competition scores. Each row can be thought of as a single competitor in the overall competition, and each column is a competition event. ...
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Auto fit column value without increasing row height in LibreOffice
I m using Libre Office Calc on my Ubuntu 12.10 desktop and I need a help.
I am writing some data from other resource and save it for each row. I have only 2 columns which values are lengthy and rest ...
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How do I mark weekends red in LibreOffice Calc?
I have a list with dates in it, and I would like to mark the dates representing weekends as red (for easier telling which day of the week it is without having to manually look up the day of the week ...
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LibreOffice Calc - Quickly fill blank cells in a list
For example:
Cell A1 = 2/3/2012
A2 is empty
A3 is empty
A4 = 3/7/2012
A5 is empty
A6 is empty
A7 is empty
What I want to do is:
select the ...
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Using LibreOffice and having problems, copying details
A staff member in our office is having trouble pasting details from a spreadsheet {In any format} to a template in .ott format.
When pasting and details from the spreadsheet, it removes some of the ...
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Labels inside bar in LibreOffice Chart
I have a bar graph with dates, three categories per date and score. It looks somewhat like this:
date score
01 --------
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02 ----------------
...
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How do I create a sum for each group of data in Libre Office Calc?
I have a simple spreadsheet like this:
Invoice_Number Invoice_Date Invoice_Amt
1000 1/1/12 1
1001 1/1/12 2
1002 1/2/12 ...
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Is it possible to display a range of cells in a different sheet in LibreOffice calc?
I've been looking around for a while, but could not find a answer.
My budget sheet contains a meta-sheet called "settings". In "settings" there is an area e.g. C10:D20 that I would like to display in ...
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Grouping date-level data by month to produce averages in Excel?
How would I return a monthly average with below cells without manually selecting each month separately?
A B
1 2013-02-13 25600
2 2013-02-14 5000
3 2013-03-15 12300
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Lookup the nearest value in a column?
I have a column (A) containing numbers between 0-200. By comparing the value of A against the values of C, I want to pick the nearest cell and thereby return the value of D.
So, if A is 160 I want to ...
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LibreOffice adjust CSV opening options
How can I get LibreOffice to NOT to adjust the cell height when opening a csv file?
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How do I generate a ranking/sort cells automatically in LibreOffice Calc?
For example I have a table with a caption and some numerical data, such as:
Mary | Sue | Mike
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100 | 20 | 30
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I want to generate a ranking, i.e.
1. Mary
2. ...
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LibreOffice/Excel: SUM an adjacent cell if the value in the conditional cell is equal to N (SUMIF(?))
Disclaimer: I have no idea what I'm doing.
In LibreOffice Calc (3.6.2.2), I'm trying to SUM all of the values in G:x (where range is G2:G529), where B:x is equal to a given number N.
The data set ...
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Ways to delete or isolate entire rows in a huge data collection
I'm working with a huge datafile (about 400,000 rows and 8 columns) in Libre Office. I need to get rid of certain rows so I selected all cells with the desired value (with Find & Replace) and ...
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How do I select non-adjacent ranges in libreoffice calc?
I'd like to perform an operation on a set of non adjacent ranges in LibreOffice calc.
I can type: C4:GA4 into the "name" box in order to select a single range. Is there a way to select non adjacent ...
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Change toolbar length in LibreOffice 3.5 on Kubuntu OS?
I've recently upgraded my OS to Kubuntu 12.04 and upgraded LibreOffice to the latest Linux version (3.5.4.2). I use modified toolbars in both Writer and Calc, so I've changed them in both ...
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LibreOffice Calc Date Insert - Ctrl + ;
For some time now I'm able to insert the date into LibreOffice Calc cells by press Ctrl + ; combination like in Excel.
In this regards I have two questions:
Is it possible to make it insert only ...
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In libreoffice calc, how can I use the fill handle to copy formulae but not the cell/border formatting?
I'm using LibreOffice 3.6.4.3 on Ubuntu 12.10.
I use cell color and cell borders to group and distinguish groups of cells in my spreadsheet.
I have bold horizontal borders every 4 rows. This is a ...
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Libreoffice Calc SUM returns ###
In Libreoffice Calc, sometimes the SUM function returns ### in the cell when referencing other sums. For example:
=SUM(x1+y1)
where
x1=sum(a1:d1)
y1=sum(a2:d2)
gives
###
in the output cell. ...
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How to make text in cell visible
Each field contains text, but how can I display it?
See C9 — it contains text, like all other cells:
How can I make it visible?
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Formatting text in a LibreOffice Calc cell
Currently I'm working on the layout of a calendar for the new year 2013. I found a template that was designed in LibreOffice Calc.
How can I layout the text in the cell of a Calc program? What can I ...
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Libreoffice calc relative and absolute cell reference on copy-paste
I'd like to create a simple Calc sheet, where column A contains the days, B contains how many hours of work i had done and C the price for that day. The price is simply a multiplication of hours (B ...
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How to extract unique data from cells in a single column with thousands of similar values?
I have a single column in an Excel sheet with around 25,000 cells (numbers). Most of them are identical that in the end there are only - I guess - maybe 200 different numbers.
Is there a way to ...
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Copy formula across row incrementing sheet number, down column incrementing number by 2
I have information on four different sheets I would like to copy to this summary sheet.
I want to know how do I copy the formula across the row and down the column on this summary sheet(say this is ...
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Create pie chart with single sector separated from the rest?
Is it possible to use LibreOffice (I'm currently using 3.5.4) to create a pie chart where a single sector of the chart appears removed from the rest?
If so, how to do it?
Alternatively, can someone ...
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Libreoffice Calc - Fill with Sum is not working
I want to add 2 columns of data and output the sum into a third column, with a =sum(a1+b1). With many rows of data, I try dragging down the highlighted cell to Fill the rest of the output column with ...
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Libreoffice Calc: how do I copy formulas, but not values from a row?
My spreadsheet has rows with cells that contain either numerical values or formulas that use these values (they access only values from the same row). Each row corresponds to an event, when an event ...
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Open source alternative for working with large xlsx files [closed]
I am new and I hope the this is the right place for the following question:
I would like to collaborate with people using large xlsx files (many rows).
Which open source alternative can handle these ...
