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: Effort Estimation Using Learning Curves.: Output from deviceQuery for NVidia GTX 560.: Good, Fast, Cheap: You Can Only Pick Two!.: What Makes a Good Programming Environment?.: JavaScript grid editor: I want to be Excel.GCC for the OpenMP vector triad: Barrier shootout! : Dramatic Faster Sorting in Linux Using Nsort.: HipHop Virtual Machine can run WordPress.: Very simple SHA1 test program written in C.: Hash functions: An empirical comparison - article by Peter Kankowski.: GNU C: Extensions to the C Language Family.: OpenGL Program: Earth with Moon Rotating around Sun.: Number of Combinations for German Tax Id.Tags: Calc, storeAsUrl, UCase, VBA, getByIndex, getCellByPosition, Microsoft, OpenOffice, VisualBASIC, Excel, getSheets, LibreOffice, ClearComments, IsEmpty, xlDialogSaveAs setString( UCase(.getString())) to uppercase a cell Somehow the lines with ThisComponent.storeAsUrl("file://tmp/Test.csv", args2() ), but didn't dwell into that any further.( ThisComponent.getSheets().getByIndex(2) ) to activate sheet #3.ThisComponent.getSheets().getByIndex(1).ClearContents( 1023 ) to delete everything in that sheet.ThisComponent.getSheets().getByIndex(0).getCellByPosition(0,0).Type = 2 to check if cell is empty.ThisComponent.getSheets().getByIndex(0).getCellByPosition(0,0).CellBackcolor = 48000 sets the background color.ThisComponent.getSheets().getByIndex(0).Annotations.insertNew( ThisComponent.getSheets().getByIndex(0).getCellByPosition(0,0).getCellAddress, "New comment" ) for adding a comment.ThisComponent.getSheets().getByIndex(0).getCellByPosition(i,j).getString() fetching character string from cell at row (i+1), and column (j+1).ThisComponent.getSheets().getByIndex(0) references the first sheet, usually called Sheet1.Now the above Excel functionality in LibreOffice. In case one wants a push-button in the spreadsheet: The connection between clicking on a push button and its association with a subroutine is not by naming convention but rather by explicit association with Events. Information on various BASIC functionality seems to be spread across various internet forums. That's basically all it needs to program in Excel VBA.ĭoing the same in LibreOffice (OpenOffice) is somewhat similar but usually much more arcane and more dogmatic.

The usual BASIC-style statements are used, e.g.,

UCase(.) return upper case of argument.

Application.Dialogs(xlDialogSaveAs).Show "filename.csv", xlCSV open file-save-as dialog.

Worksheets(i).Activate makes i-th worksheet active (bring to foreground).Worksheets(i).Cells.Clear to wipe out all content in a worksheet.Worksheets(i).Cells.ClearComments to clear all comments in all cells in a worksheet.Worksheets(i).=xlNone to clear background color in all cells in a worksheet.IsEmpty(cell) checks whether cell is empty.MsgBox(string) for displaying a short text in a message box.Cells(i,j).Interior.Color sets the background color of the cell.

Cells(i,j).AddComment("my comment") adds a comment to the cell.

Cells(i,j).Value is the content of the cell.

Cells(i,j) references i-th row, j-th column, e.g., Cells(2,3) is C2.

Worksheets(i) references the i-th sheet, usually they are called Sheet1, Sheet2, Sheet3.

Below are some simple basic concepts to access and change the spreadsheet data. We would have to rewrite the entire program, and that takes way too much time (too learn Calc, learn the new programming language, and to rewrite all the tools).27th October 2013 Programming in Excel VBA Compared To LibreOffice (OpenOffice) Calc At this moment Calc differs to much from Excel to create a ASAP Utilities for Calc. OpenOffice/Libre Office does not yet support VBA (limited they say, but we've tested versions 3 and 4 and it didn't recognize any basic macros). Is ASAP Utilities also available for Calc? (OpenOffice / LibreOffice) Published: Septem(latest revision June 3, 2013)ĪSAP Utilities does not work with the spreadsheet program Calc (included with OpenOffice or LibreOffice).ĪSAP Utilities is written in VBA, the programming language for MS Excel.