<p class="Paragraph">Scenarios are important aids for making numbers that are dependent on each other and their resulting calculations visible.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">Modify specific basic requirements in the table and you will see the new result. You can give a name to the scenario created in this manner and compare it with other scenarios.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">We have provided a ready-made example of scenarios for you to work with.</p>
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<p class="P2">Choose <span class="T1">File - New - Templates and Documents</span> and from the dialog open the <span class="T1">Samples</span>.</p>
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<p class="P2">Open the spreadsheet examples.</p>
<p class="P2">Now you see the spreadsheet documents that come with the program.</p>
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<p class="P2">Double-click the document with <span class="T1">Recar</span> in the name.</p>
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<p class="Paragraph">What you see is a sample spreadsheet in which several scenarios have been created.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">Areas in which the scenarios that differ by initial values are located are surrounded by frames. Select the appropriate scenario in the list box appearing at the top of every frame.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">Scenarios can also be selected in the Navigator:</p>
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<p class="P3">Open the Navigator with the F5 key or the <span class="T1">Navigator</span> icon on the function bar.</p>
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<p class="P3">Click the <span class="T1">Scenarios</span> icon in the Navigator (the icon with the question and exclamation marks).</p>
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<p class="Paragraph">In the Navigator you see the defined scenarios with the comments that were entered when the scenarios were created.</p>
<p class="Head3"><help:key-word value="scenarios; creating" tag="kw68475_2" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>Creating Your Own Scenarios</p>
<p class="Paragraph">To create a scenario, select all the cells that provide the data for the scenario. In our example you can create an additional scenario called "High Dollar Rate" for example. Do the following:</p>
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<p class="P4">Select the cells that are already highlighted by the frame of the existing scenario. You can also multiple-select cells that are not contiguous, i.e. that are distributed across the table. To select multiple cells, hold down the <help:switch select="System" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"><help:case select="MAC">Command</help:case><help:default>Ctrl</help:default></help:switch> key as you click each cell. In our example, however, select the range F18:F23.</p>
<p class="P4">Enter "High Dollar Rate" as the name of the scenario and leave the other fields unchanged with their default values. Close the dialog with OK. Your new scenario is automatically activated.</p>
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<p class="P4">Change the values in the frames to the values you want to apply to your new scenario. In this case, modify the dollar rate and all other values that you believe could be affected by it, i.e. economic growth and sales prices. In just a moment you see the effects of your operating figures.</p>
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<p class="Paragraph">If you want to know which values in the scenario affect other values, choose <span class="T1">Tools - Detective - Track to Dependents</span>. You will see arrows to the cells that are directly dependent on the current cell.</p>
