"OpenOffice.org's OOoBasic gives users tools to programmatically
access and manipulate files. To see how that works, we'll create a
simple macro that allows you to save text snippets from the current
document in a plain text file. This macro can be used to store text
fragments from multiple documents in one text file, or to save
deleted passages in an external file in case you need them
later.
"To build this macro, you can reuse the component that grabs the
selected text fragment in the current document. If you've followed
the previous installments of the OOoBasic crash course series on
creating a lookup macro and working with words, the following code
will look familiar..."
