Getting Started with Open Office .org 3 part 39. This Manual Book is for anyone who wants to get up to speed quickly with the latest version . “GETTING STARTED WITH ″ introduces all software programs of the OpenOffice bundle: Writer (word processing), Calc (spreadsheets), Impress (presentations), Draw (vector drawings), Math (equation editor) and Base (database). This book was written by volunteers from the community working through and is distributed under the CreativeCommon Attribution Licence | Macros container. The My Macros container is stored in your user area or home directory. If a macro is contained in a document then a recorded macro will attempt to work on that document primarily because it uses ThisComponent for its actions. Every library container contains a library named Standard. It is better to create your own libraries with meaningful names than to use the Standard library. Not only are meaningful names easier to manage but they can also be imported into other library containers whereas the Standard library cannot. allows you to import libraries into a library Caution container but it will not allow you to overwrite the library named Standard. Therefore if you store your macros in the Standard library you cannot import them into another library container. Just as it makes good sense to give your libraries meaningful names it is prudent to use meaningful names for your modules. By default uses names such as Modulel. Feel free to use your own meaningful name. As you create your macros you must decide where to store them. Storing a macro in a document is useful if the document will be shared and you want the macro to be included with the document. Macros stored in the application library container named My Macros however are globally available to all documents. Macros are not available until the library that contains them is loaded. The Standard library and Template library however are automatically loaded. A loaded library is displayed differently from a library that is not loaded. To load the library and the modules it contains doubleclick on the library. Where are macros stored stores user-specific data in a directory under the user s home directory. For example on Windows this is C Documents and Settings name Application Data. User macros are stored in user basic. Each library is stored in its own directory off the basic directory. It is not important to understand where macros .