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Re: ODF and macros
by Oscar on Tuesday 15/May/2007, @02:56

Thanks for the answer and an explanation.
I'm still a bit confused though. From what I can see I'll still be able to send my macro-infested MS-word-doc to someone and have them behave they way I expect.

Is there, or will there be, some way to do the same with ODF? I think I can do it with OpenOffice, but not between OpenOffice and KOffice.

Perhaps I'm making even less sense now but being able to send a macro-using-document is something that I want to do from time to time. Typically spreadsheets.

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Re: ODF and macros
by superstoned on Tuesday 15/May/2007, @04:19

you can send the old, macro-infested files between the old MS Office versions and (I guess) to newer MS Office versions. and thanks to the huge amount of work on vbscripting, also to OpenOffice. KOffice won't be able to open them, no VB script support. And ODF doesn't have embedded macro's (afaik) so that's a no-go as well.

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Re: ODF and macros
by Oscar on Tuesday 15/May/2007, @04:42

I don't think I'm being clear enough but that might be because I don't really know what I really want.

I'm not asking for (and probably don't want) VB-support in KOffice. What I'm looking for is making ODF similar to MS-doc in the way that I can include a macro and it will work on the machine that opens that document-file.

So when I make my spreadsheet and some clever macros in it that formats the data in some way, I can send it to my collegue and he can fill it with data that will be formatted according to the rules I set up. Regardless of which program or platform we use to open this ODF-Spreadsheet.

Sorry if I'm too stupid to understand the answers given.

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Re: ODF and macros
by superstoned on Tuesday 15/May/2007, @06:16

I think you might be able to send the macro seperately, but not in the document, as that's a big security risk (and that's why MS doesn't allow that anymore). But I might be mistaken, maybe a KOffice dev can explain/tell more about this.

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Re: ODF and macros
by Thomas Zander on Tuesday 15/May/2007, @08:29

Superstoned is right; in ODF we force a strict separation of document and application (and a macro is an application).

You have a huge set of formulas and other features available to you in a spreadsheet document, but you will not have features like downloading or printing or even for loops.

It would be good to know what kind of things you need to do in your macro so we can find a good (and secure) solution for them. If you can give exact and specific examples of actions taken, that would be nice to know :)

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