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Editing Spreadsheet Documents
EDITATTR
character formatting that only applies to parts of the cells
You can also add the constants together to delete different information using a call from clearContents.
Searching and Replacing Cell Contents
Spreadsheet documents, like text documents, provide a function for searching and replacing.
The descriptor objects for searching and replacing in spreadsheet documents are not created directly through the
document object, but rather through the Sheets list. The following is an example of a search and replace process:
Dim Doc As Object
Dim Sheet As Object
Dim ReplaceDescriptor As Object
Dim I As Integer
Doc = ThisComponent
Sheet = Doc.Sheets(0)
ReplaceDescriptor = Sheet.createReplaceDescriptor()
ReplaceDescriptor.SearchString = "is"
ReplaceDescriptor.ReplaceString = "was"
For I = 0 to Doc.Sheets.Count - 1
Sheet = Doc.Sheets(I)
Sheet.ReplaceAll(ReplaceDescriptor)
Next I
This example uses the first page of the document to create a ReplaceDescriptor and then applies this to all
pages in a loop.
110 OpenOffice.org 3.2 BASIC Guide · March 2010