Getting Started Guide

VBA Properties Load/Save options
On the Load/Save – VBA Properties page, you can choose whether to keep any
macros in Microsoft Office documents that are opened in OpenOffice.org.
Figure 37: Choosing Load/Save VBA Properties
• If you choose Save original Basic code, the macros will not work in OOo but
are retained if you save the file into Microsoft Office format.
• If you choose Load Basic code to edit, the changed code is saved in an OOo
document but is not retained if you save into a Microsoft Office format.
• If you are importing a Microsoft Excel file containing VBA code, you can select
the option Executable code. Whereas normally the code is preserved but
rendered inactive (if you inspect it with the StarBasic IDE you will notice that
it is all commented), with this option the code is ready to be executed.
Microsoft Office Load/Save options
On the Load/Save – Microsoft Office page, you can choose what to do when importing
and exporting Microsoft Office OLE objects (linked or embedded objects or
documents such as spreadsheets or equations).
Select the [L] options to convert Microsoft OLE objects into the corresponding
OpenOffice.org OLE objects when a Microsoft document is loaded into OOo
(mnemonic: “L” for “load”).
Select the [S] options to convert OpenOffice.org OLE objects into the corresponding
Microsoft OLE objects when a document is saved in a Microsoft format (mnemonic:
“S” for “save”).
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