On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 12:19 -0400, K Hindall wrote: > After a week of teaching myself how to create user forms in Visual Basic for > Micro$oft Excel, I have discovered that two basic features--tabbing through > text boxes and pasting into text boxes--are not supported on the Macintosh. > My employer is an all-Mac house. > > I am tired of using a software package that is just a high-priced > advertisement for the developer's platform, but I don't think OpenOffice or > NeoOffice will work for me. What I need to be able to do is create a user > input form to put data into a spreadsheet. The form must be usable in both > English-language and Japanese-language Mac OSX environments. Japanese text > must be supported (90% of the data going into the form and on the sheet is > Japanese text). As far as I can tell neither OpenOffice nor NeoOffice meets > all the requirements. I don't expect to get NeoOffice help here, but it > would be nice if someone could tell me if I am correct about OpenOffice not > fitting the bill. >
You may have to wait a short while for OOo2.0 for MacOSX but it does support Xforms which will allow you to do what you want. Please review Chapter 12 of http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/OOo2.x/user_guide2_draft.pdf -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
