Brian Charette wrote:
Hello,
I very recently downloaded the open office programs and am learning
how to use them.
Which of the available programs from open office would be the
equivalent of Microsoft Publisher, as I was previously using this and
wish to use a similar format in the future.
There is no equivalent program to Publisher, at least not in the way
that Writer is analogous to Word, and Calc is analogous to Excel.
Nothing will open a Publisher file except for Publisher. So there is no
compatibility between Publisher and any of the OpenOffice programs, like
there is between Writer and Word for example.
Depending on what you need to do, Writer can to a credible job of some
page layout functions. I'm editor of a newsletter, which I use Writer
for, and it works fairly well. I've heard that Draw can also be used to
do some functions that Publisher can do, but I don't have any experience
doing so.
I previously used Excel and wonder at this time why the "SUM" function
does not work in open office.
The SUM button (upper case Greek sigma) does work. What you need to do
is to click in the cell where you want the formula to appear. Let's say
you want to sum the numbers in the range A1:A10, and you want the sum to
be displayed in A12. Click in A12, and click the SUM button. Calc will
attempt to guess the range that you want to sum. In the above example,
it will guess correctly. If it has guessed correctly, then press Enter.
If it doesn't guess correctly, then simply (after you click the SUM
button) highlight the range that you want to sum, and press enter.
No doubt I am doing something incorrect. Can you please direct me in
these matters.
Thank-you kindly
Brian Charette
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