Donna Phelan wrote:
Hi,
I wasn't able to figure it out. I went to Documents and opened it and there
were about 40 different icons to chose from. What's that about? Help! I
thought it'd be like Microsoft Word and let my son make a bar graph. How?
Donna
Hello Donna,
Lot's of document types available with OpenOffice.org isn't there -
actually there is with MS Office also they just don't burden you with
displaying every possible one.
In OpenOffice.org things don't work exactly like MS Office ( you know
that already ) and the Charting functions are closely tied in with the
Spreadsheet module. But that does not mean you can't use it in Writer.
I will assume you have the latest version of OpenOffice.org, 2.3.1.
Open a writer file.
On the main menu select 'Insert > Object > Chart'.
Now you have a chart in the file.
You need to setup the data so - select the whole chart object ( careful
here you can accisdentally select just parts of the chart also ) and
right click the mouse.
From the popup menu select 'Chart Data Table'
Add your data as needed.
Now that is not the only way to do this - but it is one simple way.
You will want to check out the free users manuals available at the
OpenOffice.org wiki
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/documentation look under the
section for 'User Guides' - remember the charting functions are found in
the spreadsheet - so in the Calc Guide.
Best of luck then,
Drew
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