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Text tables are available in OpenOffice.org through the TextTables list of the document object. The
previous example shows how a text table can be created. The options for accessing text tables are
described in the following section.
Editing Tables
A table consists of individual rows. These in turn contain the various cells. Strictly
speaking, there are no table columns in OpenOffice.org. These are produced implicitly by
arranging the rows (one under another) next to one another. To simplify access to the
tables, OpenOffice.org, however, provides some methods which operate using columns.
These are useful if no cells have been merged in the table.
Let us first take the properties of the table itself. These are defined in the
com.sun.star.text.TextTable
service. Here is an list of the most important properties of the table object:
BackColor (Long)
background color of table.
BottomMargin (Long)
bottom margin in 100ths of a millimeter.
LeftMargin (Long)
left margin in 100ths of a millimeter.
RightMargin (Long)
right margin in 100ths of a millimeter.
TopMargin (Long)
top margin in 100ths of a millimeter.
RepeatHeadline (Boolean)
table header is repeated on every page.
Width (Long)
Rows
absolute width of the table in 100ths of a millimeter.
A table consists of a list containing rows. The following example shows how the rows of a
table can be retrieved and formatted.
Dim Doc As Object
Dim Table As Object
Dim Cursor As Object
Dim Rows As Object
Dim Row As Object
Dim I As Integer