Category Archives: OO Basic

Updating my HTML Export

Posted on November 10, 2007 by admin

In a previous post I provided code for a simple macro I wrote to export text from an Office Writer document that was suitable to paste in the non-visual WordPress editor. The reason I wrote this was to produce the … Continue reading →

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Exporting Partial HTML for WordPress Posts

Posted on July 2, 2007 by admin

I’m a bit eccentric and don’t use the visual editor with WordPress on this blog and several others that I maintain. For a number of posts I write my basic material in OpenOffice Writer and then post it. Up to … Continue reading →

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In which I confess to stupidity

Posted on June 11, 2007 by admin

In my previous post on sorting a scripture index, I used a rather lousy way of telling where the index was in the document. This came back to bite me today when I changed the number of references to a … Continue reading →

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Beginning Work with Draw

Posted on May 14, 2007 by admin

As a means of teaching myself how to program OO Draw using OO Basic, I am trying to duplicate some of the functionality of a game mapping system I wrote some years ago using C++. I’m going to post my … Continue reading →

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Listing Tables and Indexes

Posted on May 1, 2007 by admin

Here’s a piece of code I adapted from the “Programming Guide to BASIC.” It didn’t actually prove to get me anywhere I wanted to go, but it might help in some other effort. This one simply iterates all indexes and … Continue reading →

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Sorting a Scriptural Index – Take I

Posted on May 1, 2007 by admin

Update: Please see my next try at this. If you mess up the count of instances of “scripture index” in the rather unhandy way I found the scripture index you could get some nasty results. The new one fixes that. … Continue reading →

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Converting to OpenOffice.org – My Experience

Posted on April 20, 2007 by admin

I’ve seen many comments and questions on the various e-mail lists about just how compatible OpenOffice, especially OpenOffice.org Writer, actually is with Microsoft Office. I’ve largely converted my own business, including the publishing element (Energion Publications), and while there are … Continue reading →

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OO Basic Guide

Posted on April 12, 2007 by admin

There’s an important OpenOffice BASIC guide that I failed to mention previously. It’s official, and the main index of the help file for OO BASIC, so I assumed it without mentioning it. It is Programming Guide for BASIC on docs.sun.com. … Continue reading →

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Fill in OO Calc

Posted on April 10, 2007 by admin

On a spreadsheet I needed to enter a formula in one cell and then fill down with that formula over a range. My first thought was that, as in VBA, I would record a macro and get the commands. I … Continue reading →

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