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This document provides a tutorial on creating pivot tables in OpenOffice Calc, outlining eight simple steps. It includes instructions for ensuring OpenOffice is installed, downloading sample data, and setting up the pivot table to analyze sales data from various stores and book titles. The tutorial encourages experimentation with data arrangement for different insights.

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This document provides a tutorial on creating pivot tables in OpenOffice Calc, outlining eight simple steps. It includes instructions for ensuring OpenOffice is installed, downloading sample data, and setting up the pivot table to analyze sales data from various stores and book titles. The tutorial encourages experimentation with data arrangement for different insights.

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8 simple steps to creating pivot tables in OpenOffice Calc

Pivot tables are a useful and relatively simple way of computing, arranging, and displaying data to read
and understand.

In the sample file there is a list of Invoice Numbers, four store names, five different book titles, and the
total amount sold of a given title by a given store on a given date.

This tutorial shows one way of arranging the data so that one can see the total amount that each store
sold of each book, along with the amount the company made from each title's sales, and how much
each store made from the sales of all the books.

Here are the steps:

Step 1: Check and make sure that OpenOffice is installed on the computer that you're using. It should
be installed on all the Commons computers and the desk computers. If it isn't installed, you will have
to download it for free from http://openoffice.org.

Step 2: Download a sample data sheet, or create your own data. One sample data sheet is available at
http://www.cs.mun.ca/~hje227/W14/W14CS8/sampledata.ods, but there are many of these across the
Interwebz.

Step 3: Select the first cell in your sheet of data.


Step 4: In the “Data” menu, select “Pivot Table” and choose “Create”

Step 5: You will get a screen like this one shown. Make sure “Current Selection” is chosen and click
OK.

Step 6: A wild pivot table box appeared.


Step 7: Commons Employee used Mad Skills.

This is where you select what type of data is to appear in which part of the pivot table. This all
depends on what type of data you want to view and how you want it to appear.

Step 8: It's super effective.

Tada. You made a pivot table!

I recommend you to try placing the data types in different spots to show the results in different orders.
I hope this wasn't too difficult!

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