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Spreadsheet Documents
Spreadsheet Documents
OpenOffice.org Basic provides an extensive interface for program-controlled creation and
editing of spreadsheets. This chapter describes how to control the relevant services,
methods and properties of spreadsheet documents:
• → The Structure of Spreadsheets
• → Editing Spreadsheet Documents
The first section addresses the basic structure of spreadsheet documents and shows you
how to access and to edit the contents of individual cells.
The second section concentrates on how to edit spreadsheets efficiently by focusing on cell
areas and the options for searching and replacing cell contents.
The Range object allows you to address any table area and has been extended in the new API.
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The Structure of Spreadsheets
The document object of a spreadsheet is based on the
com.sun.star.sheet.SpreadsheetDocument
service. Each of these documents may contain several spreadsheets. In this guide, a
table-based document or spreadsheet document is the entire document, whereas a
spreadsheet (or sheet for short) is a sheet (table) in the document.
Different terminology for spreadsheets and their content is used in VBA and OpenOffice.org Basic.
Whereas the document object in VBA is called a Workbook and its individual pages Worksheets, they
are called SpreadsheetDocument and Sheet in OpenOffice.org Basic.