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  38       <topic id="textswriterguidecalculate_intextxml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH">
  39          <title xml-lang="en-US" id="tit">Calculating Complex Formulas in Text Documents</title>
  40          <filename>/text/swriter/guide/calculate_intext.xhp</filename>
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  44 <bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3147406"><bookmark_value>formulas; complex formulas in text</bookmark_value>
  45       <bookmark_value>calculating;formulas/mean values</bookmark_value>
  46 </bookmark><comment>mw reduced "calculating;"  entries to one entry</comment>
  47 <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id3147406" role="heading" level="1" l10n="U"
  48                  oldref="20"><variable id="calculate_intext"><link href="text/swriter/guide/calculate_intext.xhp" name="Calculating Complex Formulas in Text Documents">Calculating Complex Formulas in Text Documents</link>
  49 </variable></paragraph>
  50       <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3145245" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="25">You can use predefined functions in a formula, and then insert the result of the calculation into a text document.</paragraph>
  51       <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3152901" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="26">For example, to calculate the mean value of three numbers, do the following:</paragraph>
  52       <list type="ordered">
  53          <listitem>
  54             <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3145078" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="27">Click in the document where you want to insert the formula, and then press F2.</paragraph>
  55          </listitem>
  56          <listitem>
  57             <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3156382" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="28">Click the <item type="menuitem">Formula</item>
  58                <emph/>icon, and choose "Mean" from the Statistical Functions list.</paragraph>
  59          </listitem>
  60          <listitem>
  61             <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149692" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="30">Type the three numbers, separated by vertical slashes (|).</paragraph>
  62          </listitem>
  63          <listitem>
  64             <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149481" role="listitem" l10n="U" oldref="32">Press <emph>Enter</emph>. The result is inserted as a field into the document.</paragraph>
  65          </listitem>
  66       </list>
  67       <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149823" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="35">To edit the formula, double-click the field in the document.</paragraph>
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