Hi, I used Microsoft Excel until I retired 11 years ago. I now have a need to use spreadsheets again and have downloaded the free version of Open Office. Generally I am finding it great but obviously there are differences. Some I am managing to work out but others prove refractory.
1.. On thing I would like to be able to do is to fix the column headings in a spreadsheet i.e. so that they stay at the top of the screen when I scroll down. Is it possible to do this please? It is something I used to be able to do in Excel. 2.. The second thing is an observation. I wanted to highlight text. I went to the Help facility and found a familiar icon (superscript ab with below a diagonal pen leading to a coloured line at the bottom). I could not find this icon on any of the toolbars in Calc. that I looked at (those that by name seemed relevant). By examining the icons on the Formatting Toolbar I soon found one with what looked like paint being poured from a pot. It highlighted any cell or selection of cells that I wanted but would not highlight a selection of words from a sentence in a cell. This is fine as you can do the latter by changing the text colour and I really wanted to colour the background to words as you would in a text document. I wonder if this information about the icon and how to use it in a spreadsheet could be included in the Help function? Or, maybe it is there but I was unable to find it. I notice that the familiar Icon that I found in help was in the Writer section. I had tried looking in several other highlight help areas but without success. Regards, Dave Potter D & SA Potter. 221 Borden Lane, Sittingbourne, Kent. ME9 8HR. Tel: +44 (0)1795 473302 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
