Okay. I didn't loose as much as I thought and my external hard disk just needed to be unplugged and plugged back in. What I did loose, though, was my graphing routines. They were a pain in the neck and I believe I will be quite content to use other programs for graphing ( Read more... )

Oh well. There goes another hobby ( Read more... )

You can modify existing routines to do different jobs. The last program found all the prime factors in a number. This one tells you if a number is a prime ( Read more... )

Well, excuuuuuuuuuuse me!

There are help files for LibreOffice. You can find a download for them on the Home page for LibreOffice. They work just like the OpenOffice help files (They're called the Help Pack.)

Not really. That topic, it seems, has been overdone and LibreOffice seems to come out on top every time ( Read more... )

Here's a routine to finnd the prime factors of a number ( Read more... )

Here it is in OopenOffice Basic ( Read more... )

There are several ways to open things from inside a OpenOffice document. The most accessible is the Hyperlink, but hyperlinks are limited. For instance, you can't open programs with them. Here are two short routines that allow you to open most other programs and other documents ( Read more... )

So, if you want to go in the other direction and convert a decimal number to a number in a different base system, here's how you can do it ( Read more... )

I like a lot of things about OpenOffice but the Basic language they use for their macros is a little embarrassing. For instance, I miss the Data....Read statements. In Basic (regular Basic, that is), if you want to load a bid array with constants, you use a Data statement and follow it up with a list of the values separated by commas. Then you set ( Read more... )