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Selecting cellsThere are several ways to select a cell or a range of cells. To select a single cell, just click on it.You can click and drag to select a rectangular range of cells. If you want to select more cells thataren't next to each other, hold the Ctrl key and click on each of the cells you want to include.Changing the cell background colorLet's change the background color of the first row to the “olive brown” color we just created. First,select the row by clicking on the row header to the left of the sheet, then select the format menuand choose the cells option.The format cells screen will let you change all kinds of things related to the display and format ofitems in a cell, as well as the cells themselves.To change the background of the selected cells, click on the background tab. The menu defaultsto the tab you most recently used. In this case, it is defaulted to the background tab. If your menudidn't default to the background tab, click on it to display the background options screen.Next, select the “olive brown” color created in the previous step. Click the OK button to apply thechanges and you're finished.Formatting textThere are several ways to change text formatting in OpenOffice. The quickest way is to use thefont formatting controls on the toolbar. These buttons will let you specify a font, the font size, bold,italic, underline, font color and text alignment.23