1*cdf0e10cSrcweir<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2*cdf0e10cSrcweir<helpdocument version="1.0"> 3*cdf0e10cSrcweir 4*cdf0e10cSrcweir<!-- 5*cdf0e10cSrcweir*********************************************************************** 6*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 7*cdf0e10cSrcweir * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. 8*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 9*cdf0e10cSrcweir * Copyright 2000, 2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 10*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 11*cdf0e10cSrcweir * OpenOffice.org - a multi-platform office productivity suite 12*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 13*cdf0e10cSrcweir * This file is part of OpenOffice.org. 14*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 15*cdf0e10cSrcweir * OpenOffice.org is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify 16*cdf0e10cSrcweir * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 17*cdf0e10cSrcweir * only, as published by the Free Software Foundation. 18*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 19*cdf0e10cSrcweir * OpenOffice.org is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 20*cdf0e10cSrcweir * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 21*cdf0e10cSrcweir * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 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If not, see 27*cdf0e10cSrcweir * <http://www.openoffice.org/license.html> 28*cdf0e10cSrcweir * for a copy of the LGPLv3 License. 29*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 30*cdf0e10cSrcweir ************************************************************************ 31*cdf0e10cSrcweir --> 32*cdf0e10cSrcweir 33*cdf0e10cSrcweir 34*cdf0e10cSrcweir<meta> 35*cdf0e10cSrcweir <topic id="textscalcguidedatabase_definexml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 36*cdf0e10cSrcweir <title xml-lang="en-US" id="tit">Defining Database Ranges</title> 37*cdf0e10cSrcweir <filename>/text/scalc/guide/database_define.xhp</filename> 38*cdf0e10cSrcweir </topic> 39*cdf0e10cSrcweir </meta> 40*cdf0e10cSrcweir <body> 41*cdf0e10cSrcweir<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3154758"><bookmark_value>tables; database ranges</bookmark_value> 42*cdf0e10cSrcweir <bookmark_value>database ranges; defining</bookmark_value> 43*cdf0e10cSrcweir <bookmark_value>ranges; defining database ranges</bookmark_value> 44*cdf0e10cSrcweir <bookmark_value>defining;database ranges</bookmark_value> 45*cdf0e10cSrcweir</bookmark> 46*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id3154758" role="heading" level="1" l10n="U" 47*cdf0e10cSrcweir oldref="31"><variable id="database_define"><link href="text/scalc/guide/database_define.xhp" name="Defining Database Ranges">Defining a Database Range</link> 48*cdf0e10cSrcweir</variable></paragraph> 49*cdf0e10cSrcweir <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153768" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="81">You can define a range of cells in a spreadsheet to use as a database. Each row in this database range corresponds to a database record and each cell in a row corresponds to a database field. You can sort, group, search, and perform calculations on the range as you would in a database.</paragraph> 50*cdf0e10cSrcweir <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3145801" role="warning" l10n="CHG" oldref="82">You can only edit and access a database range in the spreadsheet that contains the range. You cannot access the database range in the %PRODUCTNAME Data Sources view. </paragraph> 51*cdf0e10cSrcweir <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_idN10648" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">To define a database range</paragraph> 52*cdf0e10cSrcweir <list type="ordered"> 53*cdf0e10cSrcweir <listitem> 54*cdf0e10cSrcweir <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155064" role="listitem" l10n="CHG" oldref="41">Select the range of cells that you want to define as a database range.</paragraph> 55*cdf0e10cSrcweir </listitem> 56*cdf0e10cSrcweir <listitem> 57*cdf0e10cSrcweir <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_idN10654" role="listitem" l10n="NEW">Choose <item type="menuitem">Data - Define Range</item>.</paragraph> 58*cdf0e10cSrcweir </listitem> 59*cdf0e10cSrcweir <listitem> 60*cdf0e10cSrcweir <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153715" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="72">In the <emph>Name</emph> box, enter a name for the database range.</paragraph> 61*cdf0e10cSrcweir </listitem> 62*cdf0e10cSrcweir <listitem> 63*cdf0e10cSrcweir <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_idN1066A" role="listitem" l10n="NEW">Click <emph>More</emph>.</paragraph> 64*cdf0e10cSrcweir </listitem> 65*cdf0e10cSrcweir <listitem> 66*cdf0e10cSrcweir <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154253" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="42">Specify the options for the database range.</paragraph> 67*cdf0e10cSrcweir </listitem> 68*cdf0e10cSrcweir <listitem> 69*cdf0e10cSrcweir <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_idN10675" role="listitem" l10n="NEW">Click <emph>OK</emph>.</paragraph> 70*cdf0e10cSrcweir </listitem> 71*cdf0e10cSrcweir </list> 72*cdf0e10cSrcweir <section id="relatedtopics"> 73*cdf0e10cSrcweir <embed href="text/scalc/guide/database_sort.xhp#database_sort"/> 74*cdf0e10cSrcweir <embed href="text/scalc/guide/database_filter.xhp#database_filter"/> 75*cdf0e10cSrcweir </section> 76*cdf0e10cSrcweir </body> 77*cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument>