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Editing Spreadsheet Documents
Doc = ThisComponent
Sheet = Doc.Sheets.getByName("Sheet 1")
CellRange = Sheet.getCellRangeByPosition(0, 0, 2, 14)
The arguments of getCellRangeByPosition are the position of the upper left cell of the range, followed by
the position of the bottom right cell of the same range.
The location of individual cells in a cell range can be determined using the getCellByPosition method, where
the coordinates of the top left cell in the cell range is (0, 0). The following example uses this method to create an
object of cell C3.
Dim Doc As Object
Dim Sheet As Object
Dim CellRange As Object
Dim Cell As Object
Doc = ThisComponent
Sheet = Doc.Sheets.getByName("Sheet 1")
CellRange = Sheet.getCellRangeByName("B2:D4")
Cell = CellRange.GetCellByPosition(1, 1)
Formatting Cell Ranges
Just like individual cells, you can apply formatting to cell ranges using the com.sun.star.table.CellProperties
service. For more information and examples of this service, see Formatting Spreadsheet Documents.
Computing With Cell Ranges
You can use the computeFunction method to perform mathematical operations on cell ranges. The
computeFunction expects a constant as the parameter that describes the mathematical function that you want to
use. The associated constants are defined in the com.sun.star.sheet.GeneralFunction enumeration. The following
values are available:
SUM
COUNT
COUNTNUMS
AVERAGE
MAX
MIN
PRODUCT
STDEV
VAR
STDEVP
sum of all numerical values
total number of all values (including non-numerical values)
total number of all numerical values
average of all numerical values
largest numerical value
smallest numerical value
product of all numerical values
standard deviation
variance
standard deviation based on the total population
108 OpenOffice.org 3.2 BASIC Guide · March 2010