I'm working on forms that calculates child support. In Wordperfect I was able to lay it out in tables and use the table functions to do the calculations. In Writer the table functions are very limited. For example it doesn't have a function that tells when a cell is blank or one to look up an entry in a table.
All those functions are in Calc. In order to be able to use the formatting from Writer it's necessary to link data from my Writer table cells to Calc and then link it back into Writer. This is quite a headache. In order to simplify this I tried embedding the spreadsheet into the Writer document as an OLE object with DDE links inside it to table cells in the Writer document. I need the spreadsheet to update automatically when data in the table cells change. To date I've had poor results being able to do this. I suppose I could write the forms in Calc, but I'm not nearly as familiar with document formatting for Calc as I am with Writer. I believe the learning curve would be steep. Can you suggest how I can make these forms work? Thanks, Paul Whitehurst -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Links-in-a-writer-document-tp4017587.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
