Re: Writer can't do arithmetic?

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 5:52 AM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:28:14 +0100
> [email protected] dijo:
>
> >In writer, it appears the cell references need to be surrounded in
> >angle brackets, i.e. for E use =(<D1>-<C1>)*B1 and for F use
> >=<B1>*<D1>. The sum() function is not needed in this case - it is
> >useful if you have a range of cells whose values you want to add, e.g.
> >=sum(<A1:A5>).
>
> The brackets! That was the secret that I was missing.
>
> Thanks!
>
> (And yes, there is a reason I am doing the table in a Writer document
> and not in Calc.)
>

There is probably a reason for using a writer table for these calculations
in writer, but you can insert a calc table into a writer document. This will
then enable all the functions of calc.

Just a thought.

/paul



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