Non programmer new to OOO - how do I create these macros?

[rmbelson]

I want to make two macros to use with Writer. I am writing a book, and chapter by chapter I make discard files to keep those things I might want to use somewhere else.

1. I want to open my main document, then open a second document (discard doc), then return to main doc and go to the very end where I last left off writing. (I've been looking for a <go to> command and can't 't find one)

2. I want to take selected text from main doc, cut and paste it to the bottom of discard doc, make sure it is formatted in single line spacing (where main doc is in double space, discard doc is in single) and then return to the place in main doc where I cut the text from.

My discard docs are named by chapter, but the main doc is the entire book, so I will have to know how to change the internal commands to bring up a new chapter discard file once I've moved on to a new chapter..

many thanks

rmb

[SergeM]

You have to learn on Text cursors :
tutorial StarBasic StarOffice 7.O
http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/817-1826?q=StarOffice
Andrew Pitonyak's free document
http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.sxw
All can be found in the link :
http://api.openoffice.org/TipsAndTricks/external.html
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[accabrown]

These are quite complicated, and you need to decide whether working manually won't save you time in the long run.

writing OOo macros is fun, but it's almost always also a huge waste of time for writers.

If what you want is a record of how you have changed the book, it's probably much simpler to investigate the versioning controls of OOo. Look under file -> versions. I have used this myself when writing books. The only drawback is that versioning information is (I think) lost when you save a document in word format. SO you make a copy, and save that, preerving all your previous stuff in native OOo format.

I don't know whetherit would be possible to work with versions of a document using macros. That way you might be able to prodice a file of all the text you had removed or insterted by automating the "Compare Document" command. But this is just handwaving.