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Welcome to OpenOffice video.
In this video we will show you how to format a previously created chart and how to make it even prettier than they are already.
We have here the data range and the chart we created from our last video.
Let’s say we change our mind and we want to make it a Column graph.
We select the appropriate part of the chart by clicking here, making sure that the green rectangle/square is around the chart area itself and then we click the right mouse button, go to “Chart Type” and we select “Columns”.
We can also use the nice “3D” look.
Let’s say we want to change the color from blue to green.
We double click and select the column itself so that you have the green squares here, we double click here, then select any color you want, let’s say green.
There you have it.
What we can also do is change the background of the columns which is called the chart wall.
We select it here, do it like this and actually change this box.
But we don’t want it this weird, so here we have chart wall selected, then Format Wall, then Fill, then color and let’s make that Light gray.
Or even better make it Gradient which goes from one color to the next, just keep it gray gradient and it will go up this way.
Now we can do the same with the Chart Area itself.
We click here so we have the Chart Area selected, right mouse button, Format Chart Area, and let’s give that a very light Turquoise1.
And I can say Transparency, because this is too sharp for my eye, we can setup Transparency 60% so it is very light.
We can also insert Gradient here, start value 20, and we have a nice gradient here.
Also we can select the values here on the Y-axis and change this to Red.
You have Font -make it bigger and say Font Effects -I want the color to be Red.
Click OK.
Now it becomes bigger and better.
What we can also do is say “I want to move this chart a bit”.
It is very easy.
I can just select here and move it around.
What we can also do is we can say “I want to copy this chart and I want to insert it into another document.”
New -Text document, and I can just say Paste.
Obviously I did something wrong -I selected only the back of the wall.
I go to Sales report, and now go to Window, and now I say Paste, and there it is.
We can type “Oh wow this was a great month, etc.”
Alright, that was this video on how to format the chart.
I hope you find it useful.
If you have any questions, please leave them in the comments.
Bye.

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Welcome to OpenOffice video.
Today I will show you how to create graphs or charts in Calc -the spreadsheet program.
First we will open Sales Reports.
This is sales for a year.
To create a graph from this, we select the entire table, then we click on the “Chart” icon.
Or we go to Insert, Chart, it does exactly the same thing.
It immediately makes a dummy chart, displays the results of what you are doing.
You have a number of charts you can choose from: Columns, which is what I selected now, you can select Bar chart if you double click on this one, it will change the chart, you can choose a Pie chart.
Now we have it, OK -create Pie chart.
Area chart which is basically a line, area beneath it is colored.
You can have a regular line or dots or connected dots, or just line with no dots or with a pretty 3D-ish line which is very uncreative, but looks nice.
You can have a Scatter plot, which looks the same as the line.
When you have a bit more complex data, you can have a Bubble chart which is very curious.
And you can have a Net chart, which looks very interesting, and utterly unreadable.
Then you have a Stock and a Column and Line if you have more datasets, you have a column and line combined so you can have Sales figures in a column and the percentage increase from last month in a line.
That’s a more advanced type of graph.
For now let’s just stick to Bar.
We move the chart up a bit so you can see the whole window and we click “Next”.
It goes to the next step.
And there’s a number of steps -there’s actually 3 here on the left.
If you click Back, we go to Chart Type and if we click on Data Range we go to next step, a matter of what you find most convenient.
Here you have the data range that is currently in the sheet.
We can simply select data range here and let’s just show it for the first 6 months and then click here.
You see the chart updating.
It’s a bit more visible now.
It says “First row as label”, “First column as label”, so first row is Sales which it takes as Label.
Turn that off, it says “Column B”.
Here you can add more data if you want to, but we are fine for now.
Here you can insert, let’s just say Title -Figures, then-yeah!, we got to increase the X-axis which is sales, so Y-axis is the month, and we click “Finish”.
Now we have a nice graph.
In the next video I will show you how to actually format this.
But for now, this was how to insert, or to create a chart in Calc.
Hope you find this useful.
If you have any questions, please leave them in the comments.

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Welcome to OpenOffice video.
In this video, we will cover inserting pictures.
First we will get a picture.
First we select text, we go to Insert-Picture from file and we select a tree.
Now click Open.
Here we have the tree that was on my desktop, in a file.
We will change the size, this is a bit big.
We move to one of the corners, you see this green box, when we move the hand over, the hand symbol changes to a double pointed arrow.
We click it and we change the size of the picture.
We can drag it where we want to, and we can drop it here.
If we click the right mouse button, we get a whole menu of options.
First, Alignment, you can put it to left, right and center.
Importantly, you can make the text wrap around it, we can say Page Wrap and it wraps around it both sides.
If you say Wrap-Optimal Page Wrap, it decides what is best and usually it is one-sided.
You can say Wrap Through and it goes through and behind the picture.
You can say In Background and now the picture goes behind the text.
We usually will do Page Wrap and the text adjusts automatically which is very neat.
Sometimes you only want to display part of the picture.
You want to crop it.
This is a little bit less convenient than in Microsoft Office, for example.
You go to the Menu, right mouse, Picture, then you have a Crop window here.
Let’s say we want to cut the stem off.
At bottom, we will remove 2 inches, click OK.
Now you see the stem has been removed.
We can resize it now, this picture becomes big, but if we go to picture, then draw box around this and show little bit of the stem, click OK and here you see it.
Also very convenient is to title your picture, so you can include them in indexes, etc.
Go to Menu, select Caption, call this “tree without stem” -you see it adds a number, click OK.
It adds it below.
This is usually more convenient than in Microsoft Word, where all the time the captions keep floating away from the pictures themselves.
Alright, these are the most important picture functions.
There is a lot more to do with pictures, you can create your own drawings and insert them.
We will cover that at a later date.
I hope you find the information useful.
If you have any questions, please leave them in the comments.
Bye.