Dennis, and also Joost (hello!) I found your comments and suggestions really useful. Thanks.
Perhaps I could post them to my blog, ooo-speak? or we could link these to the A OO homepage? For others will surely have similar. (wii would do, too.) louis On 23 January 2012 11:14, Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote: > If you want to interact with Microsoft Office Word documents, you might also > consider the Apache POI project, which provides Java APIs specifically for > that purpose: <http://poi.apache.org/>. > > If you want to interact with the Microsoft Office applications (not just the > documents), you need to use the interop features of those applications. That > sort of information is available via MSDN Online. That interaction is via an > Object Model that involves use of OLE Automation or .NET programming (VB.net, > C#, etc). > > I assume you mean Open Office Writer, not Open Word, and the links from Joost > are a good place to start. There is also information on the OpenOffice > Forums at <http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/> where the use of > scripts and macros might be an easier start. Look under "Customizing and > Extending." > > And, if you want a way to learn some things about programming, consider > joining the Codecademy "Year of Code." There have been two lessons so far so > you can catch up reasonably quickly: <http://www.codecademy.com/>. There is > an active Q&A where beginners help each other over any rough spots. It > starts with JavaScript. That provides an easy on-ramp to use of some > fundamental concepts that are adaptable to what you will need in using any > other programming model. (I don't know when other languages will be > introduced, although I think Python is on their list also.) > > - Dennis > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joost Andrae [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 06:37 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Program an add-on for Word > > Hi Amos, > > probably reading the pages at http://www.openoffice.org/api/ might be a > good place to start with. > > Am 23.01.2012 06:08, schrieb Amos Denny: >> Hi, i know very little about programming but I would like to write a program >> that will interact with currently existing MS word or Open Word. If you >> could give me some place to start I would really appreciate it. I would >> like to know what kind of programming I need to learn or where to get >> started. Thank you for our time. >> >> Amos > > Kind regards, Joost >
