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Revision as of 18:48, 12 June 2007

Simple functions

You can write simple functions to make your spreadsheets more readable and easier to maintain. The process of developing and using these functions is very similar to other spreadsheet applications. For an introduction see Extensions development basic. Some examples in OpenOffice.org Basic follow.

Cell as an argument

[oobas] Function Cube( c1 )

   Cube = c1 * c1 * c1

End Function You can put =Cube(A1) in any cell.

More cells as the arguments

[oobas] Function SimpleSum( c1, c2 )

   SimpleSum = c1 + c2

End Function You can put =SimpleSum(A1;A2) in any cell.

Cells range as an argument

[oobas] Function MySum( oRange As Variant ) If Not IsArray( oRange ) Then

       If IsNumeric( oRange ) Then
               MySum = oRange
       else
               MySum = 0
       End If
       Exit Function

End If

Dim nSum As double

nSum = 0

For i = 1 To ubound( oRange, 1 )

       For j = 1 To ubound( oRange, 2 )

               If IsNumeric( oRange( i, j ) ) Then
                       nSum = nSum + oRange( i, j )            
               End If
       Next j

Next i

MySum = nSum End Function You can put =MySum(A1:A3) in any cell.

It is not possible to write to custom function that uses a cell range that spans sheets. E.g. =Sheet1.A2:Sheet2.A2 instead you would have to have separate parameters for each sheet.

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