Am 29.06.2012 09:04, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
It makes a lot of sense. Hopefully the proper LO documentation is far better
than most! The Pdfs allow you to click on items in the Table-of-Contents and
has other clickable links to help you navigate to where you want quickly.
The built-in help is probably fairly poor right now. The docs team needs more
people even to get through the proper full guides let alone important extras
like the built-in help or the Faq. On the plus side they are really getting
through the work and the 3.4.x guides have been pulled together in an amazingly
short time.
They have an excellent team right now even though some of the regular long-term
stars appear to be taking a breather (or are they working hard behind the
scenes? It's difficult to know)
Regards from
Tom :)
BLAH, BLAH, BLAH. Fanboyism by Tom.
Back on topic:
Calc is almost identical to Excel and Gnumeric. Point! Conceptually is
still similar to any spreadsheet since 1979 (a reference sheet for
VisiCalc is still online).
A function reference for Excel or Gnumeric can help you to work with
Calc if you really understand the content and that it does not apply
literally.
There is no need to know each and every function in detail. What you
need to know _and_understand_ is:
- Text vs. Number (and vs. Boolean in other applications)
- Format vs. Value (percent, bool, date/time formatting in particular)
- Relative vs. absolute reference
- The lookup functions of all spreadsheets are somewhat special. In the
first place they had been designed for something that is not that much
required by today's spreadsheet users.
- The most serious incompatibility between Calc and anything else is the
radically awkward string processing which makes it unusable for too many
of today's users.
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