There are more details available on this question on the LibreOffice site.LibreOffice has a feature where documents can specify that pre-installed macros can be executed on various script events such as mouse-over, document-open etc. In the end, what worked best was using a Bash script to send keyboard input to LibreOffice using xdotool. I'm putting this up here because it's been a real mess trying to figure it out, and maybe this will help someone someday. Sep.Position = columnWidthRelative * (s+1) ' TableColumnSeparators is a Sequence, which does not support the Count method.

TableWidthRelative = table.TableColumnRelativeSumĬolumnWidthRelative = columnWidthIn / tableWidthIn * tableWidthRelative On some tables, though ('complex' ones where not all rows are identical), some separators don't get moved. So I've got this code, and it runs without errors, and it seems to work. The values are relative to the value of the property TextTable::TableColumnRelativeSum. For that reason, the table column separator does not contain metric values for the column widths. The real width of a table depends on the environment (page style and number of text columns at the table's position, alignment, and left and right margins). It's necessary to use the relative values because, as the TableColumnSeparator docs explain: I am attempting to set the width of all the cells in a table to a certain value by setting the position of each row's separators using the TableColumnRelativeSum to calculate the appropriate relative Position. No way to retrieve the actual table you want to modify via ThisComponent.CurrentSelection, so instead hardcoded to the table at index 0Īny changes to the table don't seem to be reflected in the document, and no obvious way to re-render or refresh Seems to be working now! But still looking for a way to call the function to distribute columns evenlyĬolumns.getByIndex always returns NULL!, and there's no documentation on how to use the column enumeration class within Basicīased on this investigation, would advise against trying to do anything productive with LibreOffice 4.1 Writer Basic macros.

Here is as far as I could get: sub Testing

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