1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 3<!--*********************************************************** 4 * 5 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 6 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 7 * distributed with this work for additional information 8 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 9 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 10 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 11 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 12 * 13 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 14 * 15 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 16 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 17 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 18 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 19 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 20 * under the License. 21 * 22 ***********************************************************--> 23 24<helpdocument version="1.0"> 25<meta> 26<topic id="textscalcguidecellreferences_urlxml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 27<title xml-lang="en-US" id="tit">References to Other Sheets and Referencing URLs</title> 28<filename>/text/scalc/guide/cellreferences_url.xhp</filename> 29</topic> 30</meta> 31<body> 32<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3150441"> 33<bookmark_value>HTML; in sheet cells</bookmark_value> 34<bookmark_value>references; URL in cells</bookmark_value> 35<bookmark_value>cells; Internet references</bookmark_value> 36<bookmark_value>URL; in Calc</bookmark_value> 37</bookmark><comment>mw deleted "sheet references;"</comment> 38<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id3150441" role="heading" level="1" l10n="CHG"><variable id="cellreferences_url"><link href="text/scalc/guide/cellreferences_url.xhp" name="Referencing URLs">Referencing URLs</link> 39</variable></paragraph> 40<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id1955626" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">For example, if you found an Internet page containing current stock exchange information in spreadsheet cells, you can load this page in $[officename] Calc by using the following procedure:</paragraph> 41<list type="ordered"> 42<listitem> 43<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3152993" role="listitem" l10n="U">In a $[officename] Calc document, position the cursor in the cell into which you want to insert the external data.</paragraph> 44</listitem> 45<listitem> 46<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3145384" role="listitem" l10n="U">Choose <item type="menuitem">Insert - Link to External Data</item>. The <link href="text/scalc/01/04090000.xhp" name="External Data"><item type="menuitem">External Data</item></link> dialog appears.</paragraph> 47</listitem> 48<listitem> 49<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3152892" role="listitem" l10n="U">Enter the URL of the document or Web page in the dialog. The URL must be in the format: http://www.my-bank.com/table.html. The URL for local or local area network files is the path seen in the <item type="menuitem">File - Open</item> dialog.</paragraph> 50<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153068" role="listitem" l10n="U">$[officename] loads the Web page or file in the "background", that is, without displaying it. In the large list box of the <item type="menuitem">External Data</item> dialog, you can see the name of all the sheets or named ranges you can choose from.</paragraph> 51</listitem> 52<listitem> 53<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153914" role="listitem" l10n="CHG">Select one or more sheets or named ranges. You can also activate the automatic update function every "n" seconds and click <item type="menuitem">OK</item>.</paragraph> 54<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3157979" role="listitem" l10n="U">The contents will be inserted as a link in the $[officename] Calc document.</paragraph> 55</listitem> 56<listitem> 57<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3144768" role="listitem" l10n="U">Save your spreadsheet. When you open it again later, $[officename] Calc will update the linked cells following an inquiry.</paragraph> 58</listitem> 59<listitem> 60<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3159204" role="listitem" l10n="U">Under <switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="MAC">%PRODUCTNAME - Preferences</caseinline><defaultinline>Tools - Options</defaultinline></switchinline> - <link href="text/shared/optionen/01040900.xhp" name="Spreadsheet - General"><item type="menuitem">%PRODUCTNAME Calc - General</item></link> you can choose to have the update, when opened, automatically carried out either always, upon request or never. The update can be started manually in the dialog under <item type="menuitem">Edit - Links</item>.</paragraph> 61</listitem> 62</list> 63<section id="relatedtopics"> 64<embed href="text/scalc/guide/webquery.xhp#webquery"/> 65<embed href="text/scalc/guide/cellreferences.xhp#cellreferences"/> 66</section> 67</body> 68</helpdocument> 69