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<h1 id="hd_id3149909" xml-lang="en-US"><variable id="calculate"><link href="text/swriter/guide/calculate.xhp">Calculating in Text Documents</link></variable></h1>
<paragraph id="par_id3149949" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">You can insert a calculation directly into a text document or into a text table.</paragraph>

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    <paragraph id="par_id3149972" role="listitem" xml-lang="en-US">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 id="par_id3155547" role="listitem" xml-lang="en-US">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 id="par_id3155565" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">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>
<note  id="par_id8316904" xml-lang="en-US">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.</note>
<h2 id="hd_id971605353826552">Cell Entries that Start with Equal Sign (<keycode>=</keycode>)</h2>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id981605353389582">To make a table cell entry that starts with <keycode>=</keycode> sign, first enter a space, then the <keycode>=</keycode> sign, and then delete the space.</paragraph>

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