The way OOo works isn't so different. AFAIK this doesn't work in Access/Word without using VBA (or at least recording a macro which is translated to VBA). So you can use StarBasic to achive the same. There is a good "Getting Started" Documentation which explains much about the functionality of StarBasic (Google for StarOffice Basic Programmers Guide).Hi everybody,
I'm trying to convert a MS Access contact database to OpenOffice.org. The problem is not to access the data, but the way that Access works together with Word, Excel, etc.
What you have to do in StarBasic is:
-Reading the values from the datasource and store them in some variables
-creating a new writer file (or opening a template)
-inserting the values of the variables in the new writer file. Make use of bookmarks to get the data to a specific position within the template
AFAIK in VBA there are nearly the same steps to do so (at least I did it that way as I was working mith MS-Office).
Regards, Verena
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