[linux-help] Re: Open Office Calc help requested

[lowell <lowell@xxxxxxxxx>]

No such thing as a find and replace function anywhere?


Nate Bargmann wrote:

>I hope someone on this list is using OO Calc.
>
>I have a simple spreadsheet that is slowly gaining in complexity and is
>moving beyond anything I know about spreadsheets (yeah, I've managed to
>dink with computers for 20 years and have avoided spreadsheets until
>now).
>
>I am doing work for my church where I create a new sheet within a work
>book for each service that I count a portion of the collection.  For
>each date I copy the previous date's data to a new sheet and then
>replace the donors' data.
>
>Quite simply, I am finding a common text string appearing in multiple
>places in the same sheet, specifically a date string, and I want some
>way so that I can edit one cell's text and have the change take effect 
>in a number of other cells.  However, I'm finding the OO help system to
>lack (or I lack the necessary skills to know what they're talking about)
>a good HOWTO type of tutorial for many of these topics.
>
>Also, as I tried to learn about the macro language I was quickly
>overwhelmed.  C, I can grok, this stuff dove off into custom
>applications when all I want to do is some simple automation.
>
>Thanks!
>
>- Nate >>
>
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