A fast and friendly tutorial to writing macros and spreadsheet applications Discover the power of OpenOffice.org Calc macro language and object model Fast, fun, friendly step-by-step tutorials OOoBasic Practical and realistic examples to apply to your daily work In Detail Adding macros to your spreadsheets enables you to add data processing features to your work, tasks are automated repetitive, and even create complete data-based program that uses a spreadsheet as their back end. This book teaches the language OOoBasic and Calc object model, so you can manipulate spreadsheets and data from within your program. You'll also see how to create dialog boxes and windows for friendly user interface, and how to integrate your spreadsheets with other applications, such as writing data to a spreadsheet document, or capturing data from the database, and using a spreadsheet to produce advanced calculations and reports. What you will learn from this book? How to create custom Calc applications Creating worksheet functions, automating tasks repeatedly, create new toolbars, menus, and dialog box A complete guide, language IDE, and object model Integrating Calc applications with other components of OpenOffice.org collaborative Internet-based applications How to understand, use and adapt the increasing number of freely available Calc Macros Approach Fast, fun, and friendly tutorial.