Hi all, I'm having a real problem getting my foot in the door learning OOo macros. In WordPerfect I could write macros that would make you your morning tea and then stir it for you but I can't get a handle of the OOo ones. Normally I learn macros by: reading the manuals and trying out the sample macros, playing around with them, modifying them and so on. My sources for Openoffice are: StarOffice 8 Programming Guide for Basic and Andrew's various contributions to macros. (AndrewMacro.odt.pdf). I can't get any of the example macros to work in OOo 2.3.1 running on Debian Lenny 2.6.22 (kernel). I get a variety of errors which I can send the list, if requested. I also learn by recording macros from a sequence of commands via keystrokes, studying the code and then adapting it to my needs. But when I look at the code generated by recording a macro (say and search and replace command), it's total gibberish and looks nothing like the example macros in the manuals. I'm getting very frustrated since I don't want to do anything really complicated. I want to take the contents of, say, cell A1, perform a series of search+replace functions (one-many;many-one replacements so this is not a simple mapping) and have the result appear in cell B1.
This shouldn't be very hard but I can't get anywhere close to finding out how to do it. Can someone suggest a way I can learn this. I am not interesting in doing any kind of fancy GUI stuff; just simple data manipulation of the type described above. Thanks for any insights. Jonathan -- Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/ Please do not send me copies of list mail. I read the lists. Thanks! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
