OpenOffice.org Calc: The Mysteries of DataPilots Revealed

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jul 16, 2009 9:36 PM EDT
Linux Journal; By Bruce Byfield
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If you're coming fresh from Microsoft Excel, you might wonder where the Pivot tables are in OpenOffice.org Calc. The problem is, they're masquerading under the name of DataPilots. But, under any name, DataPilots are Calc's way of allowing you to quickly reorganize information in a range of cells so that you can gain a new insight into them. In a way, you could think of them as the spreadsheet equivalent of queries in databases. They aren't difficult to create, but they do take a little bit of thought to set up correctly.

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7,5 year old spreadsheet 'issue' in OOo yet not solved ! henke54 0 855 Jul 17, 2009 8:03 AM

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