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Automating tasks in OpenOffice

MACRO MEAL

Author(s): DMITRI POPOV

You don’t have to be an expert to get started with OpenOffice’s Basic programming interface.

OpenOffice.org comes with its own Basic-based programming language. Although OOo Basic is not the most difficult programming language, it still requires some time and effort, especially if you are not a programmer. However, reading documentation and fiddling with code might not be necessary if you only need to automate a specific task now and then. In this article, I will provide a few pointers and code snippets, so you can put OOo Basic to some practical use without learning the language from scratch.


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