Wisdom is the prime thing

Here is a simple macro to show all cells on the document with the identical text as this cell. I use it in OpenOffice Calc when I’m making the school schedule and I want to visually check that no one has parts too close. I have this macro configured to use F3, so I can just use the arrow keys to move through the schedule, and press F3 on each name. Pretty handy.

sub Main
rem ----------------------------------------------------------------------
rem define variables
dim document   as object
dim dispatcher as object
dim selectedCell as object
rem ----------------------------------------------------------------------
rem get access to the document
document   = ThisComponent.CurrentController.Frame
dispatcher = createUnoService("com.sun.star.frame.DispatchHelper")
selectedCell = ThisComponent.CurrentSelection 

rem ----------------------------------------------------------------------
dispatcher.executeDispatch(document, ".uno:Copy", "", 0, Array())

rem ----------------------------------------------------------------------
dim args2(17) as new com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue
args2(0).Name = "SearchItem.StyleFamily"
args2(0).Value = 2
args2(1).Name = "SearchItem.CellType"
args2(1).Value = 0
args2(2).Name = "SearchItem.RowDirection"
args2(2).Value = true
args2(3).Name = "SearchItem.AllTables"
args2(3).Value = false
args2(4).Name = "SearchItem.Backward"
args2(4).Value = false
args2(5).Name = "SearchItem.Pattern"
args2(5).Value = false
args2(6).Name = "SearchItem.Content"
args2(6).Value = false
args2(7).Name = "SearchItem.AsianOptions"
args2(7).Value = false
args2(8).Name = "SearchItem.AlgorithmType"
args2(8).Value = 0
args2(9).Name = "SearchItem.SearchFlags"
args2(9).Value = 65536
args2(10).Name = "SearchItem.SearchString"
args2(10).Value = selectedCell.getString()
args2(11).Name = "SearchItem.ReplaceString"
args2(11).Value = ""
args2(12).Name = "SearchItem.Locale"
args2(12).Value = 255
args2(13).Name = "SearchItem.ChangedChars"
args2(13).Value = 2
args2(14).Name = "SearchItem.DeletedChars"
args2(14).Value = 2
args2(15).Name = "SearchItem.InsertedChars"
args2(15).Value = 2
args2(16).Name = "SearchItem.TransliterateFlags"
args2(16).Value = 1280
args2(17).Name = "SearchItem.Command"
args2(17).Value = 1

dispatcher.executeDispatch(document, ".uno:ExecuteSearch", "", 0, args2())


end sub

This isn’t a really difficult macro, or anything, but I’ve lost it a couple times, and it gets frustrating to figure out what I need to google to work with the document object model. So I decided to write it out for posterity’s sake.