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The "Design Mode On/ Off" icon will have a border and a background.

Openoffice basic macros windows#

We very rapidly arrive at something which is almost a Windows "program", or "application".

When we are in OpenOffice's design mode, we can add things to the "document" which change it from a mere "piece of paper" with writing and graphics on it. but this is not what OpenOffice is talking about when it speaks of "design mode". You may, of course, undertake some "design" work during normal operations, e.g. "Ordinary" ooWriter work is done in the "normal" (design mode off) state.

The "design mode" state, for setting up controls, etc.

The "normal" state, for looking at, working on the Writer document.

Clicking it changes your environment between the two possible states: The "Design Mode On/ Off" item in the toolbar is a toggle. It will be identified as "Design Mode On/ Off" if you hover the mouse pointer over it. You need the button that is second from the left on the Open Office 3.1 Form Controls bar. It supplies controls (noun) that you may wish to place on a form you are designing. By the way, don't let the name fool you: The toolbar doesn't let you control (verb) the form. It may not be docked as below (but you can change that by simple dragging. If "Form Controls" doesn't have a tick in front of it, click on it. Use the menu: View | Toolbars | Form Controls. but there are places where it will help if you use my names for things, at least for the purpose of working through the tutorial.) What we are going to do will, of course, work with documents with other names. (The name comes from: "OPen OFfice tutorial example, level 6 (macro work), BUTTON example."). Let Open Office give it the usual extension (.odt). Put "My Button Project" on the page, by simply typing it as if you were doing a letter. open a new text document, using ooWriter. I just mention it, as in a moment I hope you'll find what we're going to do is pretty cool, better than "mere word-processing." I bet you didn't know that your wordprocessor (ooWriter) could create "computer programs", did you? But as soon as we put our button on the "page", we will have left behind the "word-processor as modern typewriter" world. While what we are going to do can be done in almost the same way on an ooCalc spreadsheet, an ooBase form, an ooImpress presentation, for this tutorial we are going to do it on a "sheet of paper" in ooWriter. The next four sections of this tutorial address each of those in turn.

A way to trigger the macro (We'll use an event.).

We need several pieces in place before everything will work. When you know more, you'll be ready to start making your own choices. Macros can be stored in various places, not just the place I'm going to recommend here. There are other ways to record one than the one we will use here. A macro is a recorded sequence of instructions. But if I do that, will you promise to read the "principles" material I've moved elsewhere? They explain things you need to understand to create and use macros.įor our "Hello World" button, we need a macro. In this essay, however, I will try to keep to the point, and present a "cook-book" answer. With those principles, you are far better equipped to adapt what I've presented, to meet your needs. I tend in these tutorials to try to teach you the principles behind all that arises. Where the difference is important, you will be told. There are some strong reasons to move to Open Office 3.1 if you want to use macros with ooBase. This tutorial was written using ooBase version 3.0 on Windows XP, but many things should work the same way under other post version 1 OpenOffice installations, and under other operating systems. We will put the button on an ooWriter document, but it could also go on an ooCalc worksheet, or an ooBase form. This tutorial shows how you can put a button on an Open Office page, and arrange for that button to put a "Hello World" message on the screen.

Openoffice basic macros software#

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