Selecting and Filling a Cell Range

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Contents 1 Selection and Filling of a cell range 1.1 Selection of a range 1.2 Filling a range 2 Copying formulas 3 Showing the formulas

Selection and Filling of a cell range

Selection of a range

• In the input field in the left top of the sheet, type the name of the beginning cell then the name of the ending cell of the range which you want to select. The names must be separated with a semi-colon: e.g. A1:A20 and press Enter
• You can save that range by giving it a significant name selecting the Insert menu then the Names sub-menu and the Define… item. This name will be visible dans la section Range names in the Navigator window.
  

Afterwards, it will be easy to select the range by double-clicking its name in the Range namessection in theNavigator.

Filling a range

• Select a cell range and choose the Edit menu then the Fill sub-menu and the Series… item.

Four types of series Linear, Growth, Date and AutoFill are available.

• The automatic filling is done from a sort list. You can see all the available lists by selecting Sort Lists in the NeoOffice Calc section of the Preferences sub-menu of the NeoOffice menu.
  

You can add here your personal lists:

• Click New
  • Enter the successive values of your list, separated with a line break. Click OK
  • That serie will be available via the Series… item in the Fill sub-menu of the Edit menu by checking the case AutoFill in the Series type section and choosing the first element of the list as the Start value.

Copying formulas

• The Fill function allows you to apply a recurrent formula to a cell range.

Example :

• Select the range A1:A20, enter 1 in A, choose the Edit menu then the Fill sub-menu, click Serie.
• Set up the Type to Linear, the Start value to 1, the End value to 20 and theIncrement to 1.
• Click OK.

The serie of the first 20 integers appears in the selected range.

• Enter 1 in the cell B1.
• Select the cell B2 and enter in the formula line, in the top of the page : "=B1+A2" (without quotes). Press Enter. The sum 3 appears in the cell B2.
• Select the range B2:B20, choose the Edit then the Fill sub-menu and the Down item. Now every cell of the selected range contains the sum of the successive integers and the cell B20 contains the sum of the first 20 integers, i.e. 210.

Showing the formulas

If in the View section of NeoOffice Calc of the Preferences sub-menu of the NeoOffice menu, you check the Value highlighting option, the cells which contain values will be displayed in blue, and those which contain formulas in green. If you choose that option, you'll not be able to change the character color in those cells.