What is OpenOffice.org Calc?
Name a popular spreadsheet software. The first answer that comes to most people is Microsoft Excel. It’s popular at work. It’s popular at home. It also costs a lot of money. Ask those same people about Calc and you might see a puzzled look on their faces. Tell them it’s free and watch the puzzled look intensify. Calc is spreadsheet software offered free for download on the internet from OpenOffice.org. A spreadsheet is like an over-sized calculator. Spreadsheets are used to calculate, graph, analyze and store information. Examples of a spreadsheet include tracking personal investments, budgeting, invoices, inventory tracking, statistical analysis, numerical modeling, etc. But, you say, I use Excel at work. Can I use my Excel files in Calc? Absolutely. You can open Excel files in Calc. You can save Calc files to Excel format. The GCFLearnFree.org course on OpenOffice.org Calc teaches you how to do this. Is it difficult to learn a new program? If you’re an experienced Excel user you will
