Pier,

thanks for your quick reply.

Wikipedia says that DDE is a windows only technology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Data_Exchange


I do not get it working on my linux system. I am curious if somebody has a 
small example running on Windows, which I could try to understand if that is 
an option....

Thanks,
Rainer

Am Montag, 27. Juni 2011, 18:26:49 schrieb yahoo-pier_andreit:
> Il 27/06/2011 17:05, Rainer Dorsch ha scritto:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I create *.csv files as results of a simulation program.
> > 
> > I have some oocalc formulas and charts for analysing the results.
> > Reentering the formulas and charts for every new *.csv file is tedious.
> > 
> > I am wondering what is the most elegant solution to achieve an
> > automation.
> > 
> > I was thinking of a separate file with an analysis sheet containing
> > references to the data in the *.csv file. The downside there is that
> > there are in many cells references to the data in the *.csv file.
> > 
> > I am wondering, if there is a way that I specify the filename of the
> > *.csv file in one cell of the analysis sheet and use that cell in the
> > the cells containing references to the *.csv file.
> > 
> > If yes, how?
> > 
> > Are there better solutions for this kind of problem?
> > 
> > Many thanks,
> > Rainer
> 
> something like this should solve:
> =DDE("soffice";"/path/to/your/source.csv";"sheetname.A1")
> this formula in your destination file will show the content of cell A1
> in sheet sheetname of the file /path/to/your/source.csv
> 
> or if you put in A$ /path/to/your/source.csv
> you can use:
> =DDE("soffice";A4;"Foglio1.A1")
> 
> I tried something similar but in my case if the data was a lot I found
> convenient to copy the csv file in a sheet of the destination file
> 
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