On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 16:35 -0400, Paul B. wrote:
G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 13:14 -0400, Paul B. wrote:
I would love to be able to use the formulas that come with Calc, but there is virtually nothing on what the terms mean in either the Help or the User Manual. (Note, if it is in the user manual I can't find it, as Acrobat Reader 7's search function is broken).
I do not remember if these are mentioned but I think not as they are
covered in detail in Help. e.g. Help > Contents > Index > Search term >
financial; functions.
Is there a resource on this, or is one to forage out on the Web? Specifically, I'm trying to figure out how to populate some financial formulas, to do things like figure out effective interest rates. The descriptions on the formula editor leave me mind-numb.
Try http://documentation.openoffice.org/ and have a look through all the manuals and HOW-TOs. There may be something there.
Thanks Gerry. Nothing in either the Help or the documentation site.
Paul
Paul,
I responded to another of your messages with a reference to how to use Help to get to the financial functions. In case you miss it, here it is again WRTT Future Value:
Help > Contents > Index > Search term > FV
For a complete list see: Help > Contents > Index > Search term > financial; functions
I am pretty certain that these are available even with a minimal installation although Help implies otherwise. I think this was true with the very first few releases but not after 1.1.x.
Hope this helps you and anyone else that needs this in Calc.
Ah yes. Sorry, when I saw your first post I searched for 'financial', thinking the '; functions' represented a subtopic I would then see (I think Windows Help works that way). That search brings up nothing, so I thought it was a dead end (this is a weakness in html help, IMO. There should have been a hit).
The entry is indeed what I'm looking for - some kind of verbal explanation of terms - with the exception that it's not complete. For instance, FV is missing.
FV, BTW, is how I solved my immediate problem. I wanted to find out what the effective interest rate is on principle that accrues to a certain sum over a certain period of time. I still haven't found a direct formula for that, but working backwards with FV got me my immediate answer.
Thanks, Paul
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