Using open office with betting assistant

[tyhsports]

hi.
as the title suggests can this be done,?
can anyone show me how to set it up or if it cant be done could you allow it to be done gary?
free office software is more appealing than the huge cost of microsoft.

[GaryRussell]

It's not possible at the moment, but is amongst our future plans as it would give as an edge over the competition. I am currently working on a COM interface for Betting Assistant so if open office can access COM objects (I think there's a distro which includes the VBA language) then it will be possible using VBA if you can program a little.

[GeorgeUK]

Just a note for those wanting to use oOo with BA.

Macro's are writeable in open office, but you need to write them in Basic, not VBA as with excel.
For those that didn't know

[tyhsports]

but we still have to wait for the betting assistant upgrade george?

[GeorgeUK]

yes tyhsports - still need to wait for Gary to upgrade.

Was just trying to stop some disappointment if some others were hoping to use vba with oOo.

Our IT department introduced it where i work and according to some literature they had, you should be able to convert excel macros to work with oOo. I spent half a day digging around the internet looking for how to do this as i use alot of macros at work and finally found the answer. oOo will convert your excel macro to note form (like putting a ' infront of text in excel vba will make it turn green), but you then need to rewrite the code in Basic!!

I've never tried programming in basic, except maybe on an old BBC computer when i was leaving school. I had to explain this to our IT department, and anyone that used any of my workbooks had to have Excel reinstalled and inform IT so that they knew how many licences were being used.

I'm sure some people will be happy with using oOo, but wanted to point out that to programme with it you may need to learn BASIC.