Making Charts and Tables in Open Office(Apache Office). Basic file showing the limited basic details for easy understanding.

2. 1 Creating and Customizing Tables
Tables are useful when we want to arrange data in a particular way
with columns and row’s inside a document. In Open office we can
create table in two ways.
 The first is to use the table button on the "Standard" toolbar, and the
second one is to use the Table > Insert > Table. Option or Use Ctrl+F12 Button.

3. Inserting a new table using the Insert Table dialog box
Here you can specify the properties for the new table.
Under Name, you can enter a different name than the Open Office-generated default for the table. This
might come in handy in case you want the tables displayed in the Navigator in a certain (sorted) way.
Under Size, specify the initial number of columns and rows for the new table. You can change the size of
the table later, if necessary.

4. 2 Insert Row(s)
1. To add additional rows, click after the last word in the last column on the right.
Press the tab key. (A row appears after the last row.)
2. To add rows between rows, click in the row in the Table where you wish to add
a row before or after.
3. Click Table > Insert > Rows or click the Insert Rows icon on the Table
Toolbar to insert one row at a time.
4. Under Insert, Amount, click on the and select the number, for the number
of rows and set before or After Depending on where you want the row to be.

5. 3 Insert Column(s)
1. Click in the second column, click Table > Insert > Columns or you can click
the Insert Column icon on the Table Toolbar to insert one column at a
time.
2. Under Insert, Amount, click on the and click 1.
3. Select the position of column(s) Before > OK. (“After” is the default selection.
A column appears between the original first and second columns.)

6. 4 Delete Rows Or Columns
1. Click in one of the empty rows you just added. Click Table > Delete,
> Rows or click the Delete Row icon on the Table Toolbar. (The row is
deleted.)
2. Click in the empty column you just added. Click Table > Delete > Columns or
click the Delete Column icon on the Table Toolbar. (The middle column
is deleted.)
5 Merge Cells
1. Click outside the margin to the left of the one of the rows that you just added or
click the Select Row icon on the Table Toolbar. (The pointer becomes a
small arrow when it is outside the Table margin. You will see "Select table
row". The row is highlighted.)

7. 2. Click Table > Merge Cells or click the Merge Cells icon on the Table
Toolbar. (The table row is one long row with just one cell (column).
6 Split Cells
1. Click in the left cell (column) of one of the rows you added. Click Table >
Split Cells or click the Split Cells icon on the Table Toolbar. (The "Split
Cells" window appears.)
2. Under Split cell into, click on the to change the number to 3.
3. Under Direction, click horizontally > into equal proportions. (The cell is
divided into 3 equal sections.)
4. Click in the right cell. Click Table > Split Cells. Under Split cell into, click
on the to change the number to 3.
5. Under Direction, click vertically. (The cell is divided into 3 parts.)

8. 7 COLOURING TABLES
To set a Specific colour to a Cell, We can use the table format option
available in the standard bar and select Background from the tab and set
the desired colour for the table as we want..

9. 8 BORDERS
To set Borders we will have to use the Table Format option and use the
Borders option inside it to set the desired border and border style for the
table.

10. 9 ALIGNMENT
Sets the alignment options for the contents of the current cell, or the selected cells.
HORIZONTAL
Select the horizontal alignment option that you want to apply to the cell contents.
Default
Aligns numbers to the right, and text to the left.
If the Default option is selected, numbers will be aligned to the right and text will be left-justified.
Left
Aligns the contents of the cell to the left.
Right
Aligns the contents of the cell to the right.
Center
Horizontally centers the contents of the cell.
Justified
Aligns the contents of the cell to the left and to the right cell borders.
Filled
Repeats the cell contents (number and text) until the visible area of the cell is filled. This feature
does not work on text that contains line breaks.

11. INDENT
Indents from the left edge of the cell by the amount that you enter.
VERTICAL
Select the vertical alignment option that you want to apply to the cell contents.
Default
Aligns the cell contents to the bottom of the cell.
Top
Aligns the contents of the cell to the upper edge of the cell.
Bottom
Aligns the contents of the cell to the lower edge of the cell.
Middle
Vertically centers the contents of the cell.

12. SPREADSHEETS & CHARTS
A spreadsheet is an interactive computer application program
for organization and analysis of data in tabular form.
We can make charts by using the Insert Chart Option. After entering the required
data.

13. There are almost 10 Different types of charts available in the List. We can
use any one of them or more than one of them so that it may blend in with the
spread sheet and relevant data