Showing posts with label NeoOffice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NeoOffice. Show all posts

Microsoft Excel has a formula that could help you to capitalize every first letter on your word easily. I use it every I create a article title so that I don't forget to capitalize it or you can use it for another need. So, if you type "i love you" and then you'll get a result like this: "I Love You".

The name of formula is PROPER(). To using PROPER() formula is very easy, just type PROPER(cell_source). For example if you want to capitalize a sentence in cell A1, just create on empty cell: =PROPER(A1) and you'll get the result soon.
Proper can work on NeoOffice Calc too.

Round Your Numbers

Posted by EdSto | 10:37 PM | , | 0 comments »

If you work with decimal number every day, I sure you often work with rounding numbers too. It happens usually because you want to create results that have a same decimal number format. So, you have to decide it first, you want to round it up or down or automatically by Excel.

In Excel you can round numbers with three functions. The functions are ROUND, ROUNDDOWN and ROUNDUP. To understand the difference between those functions you can see the picture that I’ve attached in this article.
Those functions have the same syntax. Their syntax is: ROUND(number_source_cell;number_digits) and you can apply the same syntax to ROUNDUP and ROUNDDOWN functions. The differences between those functions are ROUNDUP will round up your numbers, ROUNDDOWN will round down your numbers, toward zero and ROUND is similar with ROUNDUP.
You can take time to make some experiments with those functions to increase of understanding to these functions.

Sometimes, spaces are source of troubles on Microsoft Excel or NeoOffice Spreadsheet or another spreadsheet applications. Because if you have an calculate cell which calculate an cell or more, insert spaces accidentally can make some troubles in result cell. For example if you're create a result cell in cell A3 that contains formula to multiply between values in cell A1 and A2, then your user input a value and fill a space in cell A1 accidentally, so your result sheet will display an error and that will confused because space is invisible character.

So to prevent this case, just use TRIM function to remove the unneeded space(s) at left and right text in a cell. To use TRIM function, just type =TRIM(cell). For example, to clean the unwanted space on cell A1, type =TRIM(A1) and you'll get a "clean" text.

With this function you can reduce the error on your spreadsheet project.

If you're printing many pages from your word processor application and using a normal print order setting, you must rearrange your print out result later. That's caused computer will order to printer to print page 1 first and so on and the final result is first page in under order and last page in above order. And it's not be a problem if you only print 1-10 pages but how do if you print 50 or 100 pages at once ? I think that's not efficient way if you have to rearrange 50-100 pages. So every word processor (at least which I knew...) has ability to reverse the order printing.

I used NeoOffice Writer for Mac OS X, Microsoft Word XP and Microsoft Word 2007, so I want show you how to modify their configurations to make them reverse the print order.
1. NeoOffice Writer for Mac OS X, open NeoOffice - Preferences menu or you can press Command + , keys. Expands NeoOffice Writer configuration in Preferences window, click Print menu then check the Reversed option at Pages section. Or if you want change the configuration for your current opened document only, you can doing it in Print menu. When you will print it (by click File - Print menu), click Preview button in Print dialog and you'll brought to Printer Options and you can do the same way that I've explained above.
2. Microsoft Word XP/2002, click Tools - Options menu then click Print tab then check the Reverse print order option (in Printing Options section). Or you can also click Options... button in Print dialog when you're ready to print your document and you'll bring to Printing Options then check Reverse print order option in there.
3. Microsoft Word 2007, click Word button then click Word Options button, click Advanced tab then looking for Print section then check the Print pages in reserve order option, at last click OK button to save the Options changed. Or you can click Option.. button in Print dialog then doing the same way.
With that option you document will be printed from lastest page first and the first page will printed at last, so you'll get it with sequence order from first page to last page and it will save your times.

I am in the mood to write articles today, this is my 3rd articles today. I want write about how to combine 2 cells or more in spreadsheet application (Microsoft Excel, NeoOffice, OpenOffice). Yes, I know for Excel expert this's a basic lesson but on other hand, maybe you don't know yet about this.

OK for combining cell, create a formula like this : =A1 & " " & B2 & C2. Change the cells with yours. You can see at the pictures that I've included in this article. I want to create a result : I've visited 466 times a month. So you can put an updated value in a cell (in my example, I've put it on cell B2 for value : 466 because this number will updated everyday) and I put the result in cell B4 and I've write : ="I've visited " & B1 & " times " & B2 for the formula. Press Enter key to execute the formula, and you'll get your result.

Hi, this morning I suddenly want to write this topic. Yesterday, I make a report from existing report with Neo Office Spreadsheet that contains so many negative numbers inside it. And my new report will copy from original report but to positive number. Maybe this is not a trick, just a conventional way but maybe you don't know it yet.
Yup, if you want to make a positive number from negative number you can multiply it with -1, so you'd know if negative multiply with negative, it'll change to positive number. For example if you original number (negative one) in A1 cell that you fill B1 with -1 and in C1 contain formula : A1 * B1 so C1 will contains positive number, but this way is pretty annoying because you must multiply it column by column.
So, yesterday I think with feature in Paste Special dialog. Now, try with this way, type in A column with few negative numbers, then in B1 column (or in any column that you want) type -1 value, then copy B1 cell, then block all your negative numbers then right click to show context menu and choose Paste Special menu and in Paste Special dialog click Multiply option under Operations section then click OK button. And viola..... your negative numbers change to positive number. I think this way is shorter than first way.
I've try it with Neo Office but you can do the same action with Microsoft Excel and Open Office Spreadsheet application.