To do division in Excel you use the front slash character. You can click on the cell you want the formula in, and then you can type it like:

=B1/E4

This will divide the amount in B1 by the amount in E4.

You can use a cell and a value, like this:

=B2/10

or

=200/B5

1. Impress is free. Being Open Source - Impress is free to download and make your own modifications. PowerPoint on the other hand can set you back at current prices around £171 or $197 (so why exactly is it almost twice as much in the UK?)

2. Export to Flash. If you want to put your slides online it is pretty hard going in PowerPoint. With Impress you can export your slides to Flash. Sure it is pretty basic and you lose all animation, but it is easy to put online.

3. Eyedropper tool. The eyedropper tool allows you to pick up a colour from an object or from a picture. You can do this in Photoshop, but it means opening up a new application. In Impress it is a tool within the application.

4. Visual indicator on the crop tool. It is pretty easy to crop images from within Impress. You have a measurement of how much you are cropping and you can also see the area to be cropped.

5. You can import PowerPoint files and you can save as PowerPoint.

While not a benefit over PowerPoint it makes it very easy to migrate from PowerPoint to Impress. Microsoft employed this trick in the early 90s when most users migrated from Lotus 1-2-3 to Excel.

Alt-Control-Shift-?

or under the insert tab, click on symbol, more symbols, scroll until you locate the upside down question mark.

The first incarnation of OpenOffice was originally called 'StarOffice' - created by the German company StarDivision. The program code was bought by Sun Microsystems in 1999.

In OpenOffice (LibreOffice, ApacheOffice, etc) Writer:

Format>Styles and Formatting

(a window with a number of styles opens)

Select "Default" style, right-click select "Modify"

(a dialog opens with 12 tabs)

Select the <Font> tab

Make any changes you want.

If you want all some future documents to have a template with these characteristics Save the (empty?) document by choosing File>Templates>Save and saving in the "My Templates" directory.

If you want all new documents to use these characteristics by default you have to Choose File>Templates>Organize

find the My Templates in the list on the left and double-click it.

You will see the user-defined templates in the user directory specified under Tools - Options - LibreOffice - Paths.

Select the template you have just saved and open the context menu (right click) or open the submenu of the Commands button.

Choose Set As Default Template. The next time you open a new text document, the new document will be based on the new default template.

All this is from the F1 help searching for "default templates;changing"

go to options or word options from ribbon or file and choose customize ribbon,under customize shortcuts press button Customize..and you have option to assign your own shortcut something its easy for you to remember if you use this often

A merged cell is a cell that has been made from two or more cells. This is a facility available in Excel, which can be useful at times. For example you can make one large cell for a heading to spread across several columns or rows of data.

The iPad apps need to be created specifically for the iPad, it will not run standard software, and as yet there is not a version of Open Office available for the iPad.

NOTE:

it will open something made with Microsoft's Office (thus also an Open Office document) using Pages,KeyNote,Numbers which are part of the iWork suite.(I suppose that iWork is not included,you'll have to buy it).

No, OpenOffice does not contain an email client. However, there are many other free email clients available, such as Mozilla Thunderbird, Novell Evolution, and Sylpheed.

correpsion is very important in our lyf..........

It depends on your point of view - they are both equally good programs. They both do the same thing (ie create spreadsheets. The main difference is Excel is a single program, where Open Office is a 'suite' of programs comprising spreadsheet, database, word-processor etc.

It's a very good word processor. As well as the usual page and text formatting, there's mail-merge facilities and the option to insert picture or drawings into documents. Additionally, you can save files in different formats so they can be read by other programs.

When downloaded from the official website or from one of the mirrors it links to, it is perfectly safe.

It may be .ods, .ots, .sxc, .stc, .dif, .dbf, .slk, .csv or .uos. All these file extensions are of the OpenOffice Format and if your question is what formats OpenOffice supports then, including these formats it also supports: .xls, .xlt and .html formatted Excel Spreadsheets.

Click on Start > All programs > Open office > Calc. That will open a blank spreadsheet for you to start using. If you're referring to a particular function - drop me a note via my message board, and I'll try to help.

Microsoft Office software has supported the Open Document Format (ODF) for several years and Microsoft supply converters for earlier (before Office 2007) versions of Office that did not support the format.

Open Office will open Wordpad files without any difficulties. By default, Wordpad saves documents as 'rich text format' (.rtf) - you can specify different formats if you choose. OpenOffice will read rtf files without any problems.

This is called the header and the one at the bottom is called the footer.

Yes, they are both electronic spreadsheet programs.

Yes, they are both electronic spreadsheet programs.

Yes, they are both electronic spreadsheet programs.

Yes, they are both electronic spreadsheet programs.

Yes, they are both electronic spreadsheet programs.

Yes, they are both electronic spreadsheet programs.

Yes, they are both electronic spreadsheet programs.

Yes, they are both electronic spreadsheet programs.

Yes, they are both electronic spreadsheet programs.

Yes, they are both electronic spreadsheet programs.

Yes, they are both electronic spreadsheet programs.

Yes it is - it's free to download and free to use. See the related link to their web-site - just click the 'I want to download' button. Personally - I love it !... I've been using the software since version 1.3 (a long time ago !) - and I can't fault it.

The main disadvantage - is noise ! I've had many occasions where I've phoned a business that apparently used an open office plan - and could hear loads of background noise and conversations by other workers !