Starting new spreadsheets, opening and saving spreadsheets
Starting new spreadsheets
You can create a new, blank spreadsheet from the Start Center (Welcome to OpenOffice.org) or from within Calc or any other component of OOo, for example from Writer or Draw.
From the Start Center
Click the Spreadsheet icon.
From the Menu bar
Click File and then select New > Spreadsheet.
From the toolbar
If a document is open in any component of OOo (for example, Writer), you can Use the New Document 
icon on the Standard toolbar. (This icon is always a page of text from the current component with a black down-arrow to the right.) Click the down-arrow for a choice of which type of document to open (text document, spreadsheet, and so on). Click the button itself to create a new document of the type that is currently open. (If a spreadsheet is open, a new spreadsheet document will be created).
From the keyboard
If you already have a spreadsheet open, you can press Control+N to open a new spreadsheet.
From a template
Calc documents can also be created from templates, if you have any spreadsheet templates available. Follow the above procedures, but instead of selecting Spreadsheet, select the Templates icon from the Start Center or Templates and Documents from the Menu bar or toolbar. On the Templates and Documents window, navigate to the appropriate folder and double-click on the required template. A new spreadsheet, based on the selected template, opens.
Opening existing spreadsheets
You can open an existing spreadsheet from the Start Center or from any component of OOo. Calc can open spreadsheets in a range of file formats, including Microsoft Excel.
=From the Start Center
Click the Open a document icon.
From the Menu bar
Click File and then select Open.
From the toolbar
Click the Open icon 
on the Standard toolbar.
From the keyboard
Use the key combination Control+O.
Each of these options displays the Open dialog, where you can locate the spreadsheet that you want to open.
Saving spreadsheets
Spreadsheets can be saved in three ways.
Click File and then select Save.
From the toolbar
Click on the Save button 
on the Function bar. If the file has been saved and no subsequent changes have been made, this button is greyed-out and unselectable.
From the keyboard
Use the key combination Control+S.
If the spreadsheet has not been saved previously, then each of these actions will open the Save As dialog box. Here you can specify the spreadsheet name and the location in which to save it.
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