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Parts of the main Calc window
Individual cells
The main section of the screen displays the individual cells in the form of a grid, with each
cell being at the intersection of a particular column and row.
At the top of the columns and at the left-hand end of the rows are a series of gray boxes
containing letters and numbers. These are the column and row identifiers. The columns start
at A and go on to the right and the rows start at 1 and go on downwards.
These column and row identifiers form the cell references that appear in the Sheet Area box
on the Formula Bar (see Figure 4).
Sheet tabs
At the bottom of the grid of cells are the sheet tabs. These tabs enable access to each
individual worksheet, with the visible, or active, sheet having a white tab.
Clicking on another sheet tab displays that sheet and its tab turns white.
Figure 5. Sheet tabs
Starting new workbooks
A new workbook can be opened regardless of which other part of OOo you are using at the
time. For example, a new workbook can be opened from Writer or Draw.
From the File menu
Click on the File menu and then select New > Spreadsheet.
From the toolbar
Use the Open Document button on the Function bar. (This button is always a page of text
from the current component with a green arrow in the top right corner.) A long-click (click
and hold) on the Open Document button opens a sub menu from which you can choose
Spreadsheet (or any other type of OOo document).
From the keyboard
If you already have a workbook open, you can press Control+N to open a new Calc
workbook.
Getting Started with Calc 5