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="textswriterguidecalculate_intextxml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 27<title xml-lang="en-US" id="tit">Calculating Complex Formulas in Text Documents</title> 28<filename>/text/swriter/guide/calculate_intext.xhp</filename> 29</topic> 30</meta> 31<body> 32<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3147406"> 33<bookmark_value>formulas; complex formulas in text</bookmark_value> 34<bookmark_value>calculating;formulas/mean values</bookmark_value> 35</bookmark><comment>mw reduced "calculating;" entries to one entry</comment> 36<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id3147406" role="heading" level="1" l10n="U"><variable id="calculate_intext"><link href="text/swriter/guide/calculate_intext.xhp" name="Calculating Complex Formulas in Text Documents">Calculating Complex Formulas in Text Documents</link> 37</variable></paragraph> 38<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3145245" role="paragraph" l10n="U">You can use predefined functions in a formula, and then insert the result of the calculation into a text document.</paragraph> 39<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3152901" role="paragraph" l10n="U">For example, to calculate the mean value of three numbers, do the following:</paragraph> 40<list type="ordered"> 41<listitem> 42<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3145078" role="listitem" l10n="U">Click in the document where you want to insert the formula, and then press F2.</paragraph> 43</listitem> 44<listitem> 45<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3156382" role="listitem" l10n="U">Click the <item type="menuitem">Formula</item> icon, and choose "Mean" from the Statistical Functions list.</paragraph> 46</listitem> 47<listitem> 48<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149692" role="listitem" l10n="U">Type the three numbers, separated by vertical slashes (|).</paragraph> 49</listitem> 50<listitem> 51<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149481" role="listitem" l10n="U">Press <emph>Enter</emph>. The result is inserted as a field into the document.</paragraph> 52</listitem> 53</list> 54<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149823" role="paragraph" l10n="U">To edit the formula, double-click the field in the document.</paragraph> 55<embed href="text/shared/00/00000004.xhp#related"/> 56<embed href="text/swriter/guide/calculate_intext2.xhp#calculate_intext2"/> 57<embed href="text/swriter/main0214.xhp#releistename"/> 58<embed href="text/swriter/guide/calculate.xhp#calculate"/> 59<embed href="text/swriter/guide/calculate_clipboard.xhp#calculate_clipboard"/> 60<embed href="text/swriter/guide/calculate_intable.xhp#calculate_intable"/> 61<embed href="text/swriter/guide/calculate_multitable.xhp#calculate_multitable"/> 62</body> 63</helpdocument> 64