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The same interface provides methods moveByName and copyByName.
The Structure of Spreadsheets
The com.sun.star.container.XNameContainer interface provides a method to remove a sheet of a given name:
Dim Doc As Object
Doc = ThisComponent
Doc.Sheets.removeByName("OtherSheet")
Rows and Columns
Each sheet contains a list of its rows and columns. These are available through the Rows and Columns properties
of the spreadsheet object and support the com.sun.star.table.TableColumns and/or com.sun.star.table.TableRows
services.
The following example creates two objects that reference the first row and the first column of a sheet and stores
the references in the FirstCol and FirstRow object variables.
Dim Doc As Object
Dim Sheet As Object
Dim FirstRow As Object
Dim FirstCol As Object
Doc = ThisComponent
Sheet = Doc.Sheets(0)
FirstCol = Sheet.Columns(0)
FirstRow = Sheet.Rows(0)
The column objects support the com.sun.star.table.TableColumn service that has the following properties:
Width (long)
width of a column in hundredths of a millimeter.
OptimalWidth (Boolean)
sets a column to its optimum width.
IsVisible (Boolean)
displays a column.
IsStartOfNewPage (Boolean)
when printing, creates a page break before a column.
The width of a column is only optimized when the OptimalWidth property is set to True. If the width of an
individual cell is changed, the width of the column that contains the cell is not changed. In terms of functionality,
OptimalWidth is more of a method than a property.
The row objects are based on the com.sun.star.table.TableRow service that has the following properties:
Height (long)
height of the row in 100ths of a millimeter.
OptimalHeight (Boolean)
sets the row to its optimum height.
IsVisible (Boolean)
displays the row.
IsStartOfNewPage (Boolean)
when printing, creates a page break before the row.
If the OptimalHeight property of a row is set to the True, the row height changes automatically when the
height of a cell in the row is changed. Automatic optimization continues until the row is assigned an absolute
height through the Height property.
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