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7 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.
Note – StarOffice 5 : The Range object allows you to address any table area and has been extended in the new
API.
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.
Note – VBA : 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.
Spreadsheets
You can access the individual sheets of a spreadsheet document through the Sheets list.
The following examples show you how to access a sheet either through its number or its name.
Example 1: access by means of the number (numbering begins with 0)
Dim Doc As Object
Dim Sheet As Object
Doc = ThisComponent
Sheet = Doc.Sheets (0)
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