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="textscalcguidedatabase_definexml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 27<title xml-lang="en-US" id="tit">Defining Database Ranges</title> 28<filename>/text/scalc/guide/database_define.xhp</filename> 29</topic> 30</meta> 31<body> 32<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3154758"> 33<bookmark_value>tables; database ranges</bookmark_value> 34<bookmark_value>database ranges; defining</bookmark_value> 35<bookmark_value>ranges; defining database ranges</bookmark_value> 36<bookmark_value>defining;database ranges</bookmark_value> 37</bookmark> 38<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id3154758" role="heading" level="1" l10n="U"><variable id="database_define"><link href="text/scalc/guide/database_define.xhp" name="Defining Database Ranges">Defining a Database Range</link> 39</variable></paragraph> 40<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153768" role="paragraph" l10n="U">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> 41<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3145801" role="warning" l10n="CHG">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> 42<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_idN10648" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">To define a database range</paragraph> 43<list type="ordered"> 44<listitem> 45<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155064" role="listitem" l10n="CHG">Select the range of cells that you want to define as a database range.</paragraph> 46</listitem> 47<listitem> 48<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_idN10654" role="listitem" l10n="NEW">Choose <item type="menuitem">Data - Define Range</item>.</paragraph> 49</listitem> 50<listitem> 51<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3153715" role="listitem" l10n="U">In the <emph>Name</emph> box, enter a name for the database range.</paragraph> 52</listitem> 53<listitem> 54<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_idN1066A" role="listitem" l10n="NEW">Click <emph>More</emph>.</paragraph> 55</listitem> 56<listitem> 57<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3154253" role="listitem" l10n="U">Specify the options for the database range.</paragraph> 58</listitem> 59<listitem> 60<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_idN10675" role="listitem" l10n="NEW">Click <emph>OK</emph>.</paragraph> 61</listitem> 62</list> 63<section id="relatedtopics"> 64<embed href="text/scalc/guide/database_sort.xhp#database_sort"/> 65<embed href="text/scalc/guide/database_filter.xhp#database_filter"/> 66</section> 67</body> 68</helpdocument> 69