![]() Today tou don’t need to write or debug any code, or do anything more complex than cut & paste. ![]() It’s really just a text editor with autocomplete and formatting support for code and a debugger. If you aren’t a computer programmer, this editor may seem daunting, but it needn’t be. This will open Libreoffice’s integrated macro development environment, functionally similar to the one for Visual Basic in Microsoft Office except this one supports dialects of the BASIC, Javascript, and Python languages. These instructions are for LibreOffice Writer, V 7.1.5.2 but should remain valid for a good long while unless someone at The Document Foundation gets the bad idea to emulate some even worse idea from Microsoft. In this post, the Libreoffice Macro facility and how to easily use it to do something super useful with no difficulty at all: Make Libreoffice Write open the last document you edited to the last spot you were at when you closed it. I’m starting a series to share what I’ve learned as I’ve made the transition over the last decade or so. We’ll wait.īut when you do, you’ll naturally find there’s a learning curve. ![]() So stop paying that monthly subscription and download LibreOffice for free. It’s also a bit like a good Credit Union, driven by the needs of the community rather than the profits of a few oligarchs. More eyes are looking at the code with more detachment. Word processing doesn’t need anything but bug fixes and refinement between now and whenever the next revolution in AI or human biology renders the whole idea moot, and well-supported open-source software is safer than commercial software specifically because it’s open. Capitalism is a powerful driver of progress, but sometimes that progress is, as C.S. Why? Because word processing is a mature technology, as mature as the doorknob, and there is no reason to keep paying tech companies like Microsoft increasingly exorbitant protection money as if we needed or wanted them to “improve” it–all the while making it easier for them to spy on us and sell us crap we don’t want.
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