42 About Moving Around Calc

Your mouse and arrow keys are the primary navigation keys for moving from cell to cell in sheets. Unlike Writer, which uses an insertion point, Calc uses its active cell, the highlighted cell , to indicate your current position in the sheet.

Before You Begin

41 Enter Simple Data into a Spreadsheet

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43 About Calc Formulas

The active cell has a darkened border around it and accepts whatever data you enter next . As you press an arrow key, Calc moves the cell pointer in the direction of the arrow to a new cell, making the new cell the active one. Once you begin typing inside a cell, the insertion point appears. Unlike in Writer, though, the insertion point is not your primary means of traversing spreadsheets; rather, the active cell is.

NOTE

If you select multiple cells , the selection is considered to be a single set of active cells.

If you're working with a rather large sheet, you might find the Navigator dialog box useful. Press F5 to display the Navigator dialog box, where you can select a range of cells that you might have previously named or enter a cell address, such as C141 , to jump to that cell. You may also click any object in the Navigator dialog box, such as a sheet name, or select a range name to jump to.

Use the Navigator dialog box to move around a spreadsheet efficiently .

Table 6.2 lists the most commonly used navigational keystrokes within Calc. Use your mouse to scroll with the scrollbars.

Table 6.2. Using the Keyboard to Navigate Calc

Press This Key	To Move
Arrow keys	The direction of the arrow, one cell at a time
Ctrl+up arrow, Ctrl+down arrow	The topmost or bottommost cell that contains data or, if at the end of the range already, the next cell that contains data
Ctrl+left arrow, Ctrl+right arrow	The leftmost or rightmost cell that contains data or, if at the end of the range already, the next cell that contains data
PageUp, PageDown	The previous or next screen of the worksheet
Ctrl+Home	The upper-left corner of the worksheet (cell A1)
Ctrl+PageUp, Ctrl+PageDown	The next or previous sheet within the current spreadsheet