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Cursor movements are used for all operations (as opposed to

searching). If run on the DONTKNOW line, the word weight is moved

to the front of the line, and the first “The” is changed to “She”. This is

not perfect, but I should not have run the macro on the lines that did

not have the proper format; I need to do these manually.

Running the macro quickly

It is tedious to repeatedly run the macro using Tools > Macros > Run

Macro (see Figure 302). The macro can be run from the IDE. Use

Tools > Macros > Organize Macros > OpenOffice.org Basic to

open the Basic Macro dialog. Select your macro and click Edit to open

the macro in the IDE.

The IDE has a Run Basic icon in the toolbar that runs the first macro

in the IDE. Unless you change the first macro, it is the empty macro

named Main. Modify Main so that it reads as shown in Listing 3.

Listing 3: Modify Main to call CopyNumToCol1.

Sub Main

CopyNumToCol1

End Sub

Now, you can run CopyNumToCol1 by repeatedly clicking the Run

Basic icon in the toolbar of the IDE. This is very fast and easy,

especially for temporary macros that will be used a few times and then

discarded.

Sometimes the macro recorder fails

Understanding the OpenOffice.org internals helps to understand how

and why the macro recorder frequently fails. The primary offender is

related to the dispatch framework and its relationship to the macro

recorder.

The dispatch framework

The purpose of the dispatch framework is to provide a uniform access

to components (documents) for commands that usually correspond to

menu items. I can use File > Save from the menu, the shortcut keys

Ctrl+S, or click on the Save toolbar icon. All of these commands are

translated into the same “dispatch command”, which is sent to the

current document.

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