Re: [users] shell out or pipe from Writer?

2007-03-15 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak

Kenn Goutal wrote:

Is there a way from within Writer to "shell out",
and execute a command in the local shell w/o leaving Writer?

Is there a way from within Writer to pipe a section of text
out to a shell command (or batch file or similar construct)
and return the results in place of the original text?

You can certainly use a macro to execute commands...

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Re: [users] shell out or pipe from Writer?

2007-03-15 Thread TerryJ



Kenn Goutal wrote:
> 
> Is there a way from within Writer to "shell out",
> and execute a command in the local shell w/o leaving Writer?
> 
> Is there a way from within Writer to pipe a section of text
> out to a shell command (or batch file or similar construct)
> and return the results in place of the original text?
> 
> 

One recent thread in the forum which contains a link to an earlier thread
providing the method: http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=54406
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[users] shell out or pipe from Writer?

2007-03-14 Thread Kenn Goutal

Is there a way from within Writer to "shell out",
and execute a command in the local shell w/o leaving Writer?

Is there a way from within Writer to pipe a section of text
out to a shell command (or batch file or similar construct)
and return the results in place of the original text?

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