Well, Spreadsheets are mentioned in the Data Source chapter, but only that spreadsheets
may be used as data source (or tables?) in the new Base application. At
least as I have understood.
I was talking about using Calc native spreadsheet as lists (a simple database) and
the Data menu to manipulate the data in that list. Usually the top row of
the spreadsheet is used as header and the remaining rows are used as records
(one record - one row). The columns define the fields in each record. I
recall a couple of days ago that I haven't seen it described anywhere in
the OOoAuthor User Guides. Here at work we use this feature quite heavily
(but in MS Excel...) e.g. for Action Lists and other kind of lists.
Maybe it is too late to make big changes in the Calc outline, but I suggest to
have it described somewhere in the Calc Guide (but of course someone (Jean,
Rick, Peter?) have to decide if it is appropriate or not to get it described).
And of course I do volonteer to write that chapter/section, if it is not
written yet. :-) :-) (And I do not get mad if it is decided not to include
this feature in the guides :-) )
I do not think it is too late to make changes in the Calc outline. If something is important to be included, then it should be included. I keep adding chapters to the Writer Guide and the Getting Started Guide, as I discover new things that need to be there but weren't in the outline originally (like Forms in Writer).
It sounds important to me (and sounds like something I would use Calc for, so I'm interested to learn more), but I'd like to hear from Peter and Rick maybe one of them is planning to include this, but we can't tell from the outline?
Do you think it could be a separate chapter or would it be better as part of one of the chapters that is already in the outline?
Jean
