>> 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.)

That sounds like the kind of thing that might occasionally be useful to 
do... but I also don't know where to start.

> Does OpenOffice actually have any sort of scripting built in, or 
> interfaces that you can drive externally?

I'm guessing JavaScript? (Or maybe even Java, of course...)

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