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<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3149909"><bookmark_value>calculating; in text</bookmark_value>
      <bookmark_value>formulas; calculating in text</bookmark_value>
      <bookmark_value>references;in Writer tables</bookmark_value>
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      <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149949" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="2">You can insert a calculation directly into a text document or into a text table.</paragraph>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149972" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="3">Click in the document where you want to insert the calculation, and then press F2. If you are in a table cell, type an equals sign =.</paragraph>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155547" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="10">Type the calculation that you want to insert, for example, <item type="literal">=10000/12</item>, and then press Enter.</paragraph>
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      <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3155565" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="11">You can also click the <item type="menuitem">Formula</item>
         icon on the <item type="menuitem">Formula Bar</item>, and then choose a function for your formula.</paragraph>
      <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id8316904" role="note" l10n="NEW">To reference cells in a Writer text table, enclose the cell address or the cell range in angle brackets. For example, to reference cell A1 from another cell, enter =&lt;A1&gt; into the cell.</paragraph>
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