Re: more newbie questions

[Dave Reed <dreed capital edu>]

> From: rpjday <rpjday mindspring com>
>
>   ok, i got my repeating column fields to work, now a couple more
> newbie questions.
>
> 1) can someone explain the distinction between absolute and relative
>   cell references?  i've built a couple handy spreadsheets using
>   references like A3, B12 and so on, which work just the way i would
>   expect.  so what means $A2, A$2, $A$2??  where would one use these?


I've never had the need for absolute cell references so I can't answer
this one.


> 2) one spreadsheet i designed is for calculating invoices when i come
>   back from a contract -- income, expenses, etc.  the usual stuff.
>   right now, i have each invoice in a separate gnumeric XML file.
>   is there a way to have a "book" of these invoices?  rather than
>   keeping each one in a separate file?  each "page" (if you can call
>   it that) would have to start again at A1 and so on.  is this
>   possible?


I think you want Insert Menu -> Sheet


> 3) most importantly, is this the right forum for newbie questions?
>   i don't want to be wasting peoples' time.  thanks muchly.


I don't think this is the proper forum for these types of
questions. You should pick up a book/tutorial on using spreadsheets
(they all work basically the same so an Excel book/tutorial should get
you going).  This forum is more for gnumeric specific issues rather
than "how do I do X with a spreadsheet?"

Dave