Select the table in the spreadsheet, and click on Menu -> Format -> Autoformat. Instead of manually formatting your tables with different font colors and background, you can use one of the builtin table autoformat as shown below. The following is the list of some Openoffice calc spreadsheet tips and tricks. OpenOffice Calc offers pretty much most of the functionalities that are in Microsoft Excel. On Windows, instead of spending money on Microsoft Office, download and use Openoffice. On Ubuntu, OpenOffice is the default office suite. OpenOffice works on both Linux and Windows.