Open Office Macros Explained
This is a convenient distribution and storage method.
Open office macros explained. Select the new macro and click edit to open the macro in the basic ide integrated development environment. Ooo macros have the potential to be powerful but good luck figuring this out from the book. Send the document to another person or location and the macros are still available and usable.
Select the standard library in the calctestmacros document and click new to create a new module. Doing a simple hello world in aoo calc. The first 8 chapters do an adequate job of describing the core basic language not very useful since ooo online help does that.
Enter a meaningful name such as calcfunctions and click ok. An introduction to the creation and management of macros in openoffice is presented and each function and command is described. However the complexities of the uno and the ooo object model in general are very poorly described.
You can view and edit the macro that was just created. Ooo automatically creates a macro named main and opens the module for editing.