On Thu, 13 May 2010 12:21:50 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> largely because I wouldn't know where to start with COM.
> 
> With the help pages! :-) COM is the substrate that connects things
> together.
> 
> (I think I posted a link recently of someone showing how to use VBScript
> to talk to a DB and put it into Excel, make a chart, and use the
> clipboard to paste it into a word doc.)
> 
> Does OpenOffice actually have any sort of scripting built in, or
> interfaces that you can drive externally?

The go-oo implementation has a subset of VBA included in it (I understand 
it's a fairly sizeable subset, but I've never needed to use it).

Jim

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