Learn OpenOffice.org Spreadsheet Macro Programming: OOoBasic and Calc automation: A fast and friendly tutorial to writing macros and spreadsheet applications

✍ Scribed by Dr Mark Alexander Bain

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 216
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A fast and friendly tutorial to writing macros and spreadsheet applications
Discover the power of the OpenOffice.org macro language and Calc object model
Fast, fun, friendly step-by-step OOoBasic tutorial
Practical and realistic examples to apply to your daily work
In Detail
Adding macros to your spreadsheets enables you to add data processing features to your work, automate repetitive tasks, and even create complete data-driven programs that use the spreadsheet as their back end.
This book teaches the OOoBasic language and the Calc object model, so that you can manipulate spreadsheets and data from within your programs. You will also see how to create dialog boxes and windows for friendly user interfaces, and how to integrate your spreadsheets with other applications, for example writing spreadsheet data to a document, or capturing data from a database, and using the spreadsheet for generating advanced calculations and reports.
Calc is OpenOffice.org