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Asked: 2026-05-20T21:45:06+00:00

I cannot use Cells(x,y) anymore in OpenOffice (seems to be a bug, from what

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I cannot use Cells(x,y) anymore in OpenOffice (seems to be a bug, from what I can gather googling Cells.select). Are there any workaround for this (with different code)? I need to respond to the value returned from Cells(x,y) of course.

The error is:

unsatisfied query of type ooo.vba.excel.XWorksheet!
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  1. Editorial Team

    Either everything changed for 3.3, or they just broke everything by accident. The most likely case is that everything I was using has been deprecated, but it might be temporarily broken.

    In any case, you can no longer use the naked Cells(y,x). Now you have to use

        Sheet =  ThisComponent.getCurrentController.getActiveSheet
    Cell = Sheet.getCellByPosition(x, y)

    Note:

    1. The docs are here (thanks to @Tim Williams for Google support).

    2. Unlike with cells, the x and y are now “normal” (column, row), not inverted. Also, the index is zero-based.

    3. To select a cell you have to use

      ThisComponent.getCurrentController().createUnoService("com.sun.star.frame.DispatchHelper").select(cell)

    4. To get the active cell

      oCell = ThisComponent.getCurrentSelection()
If not oCell.supportsService("com.sun.star.sheet.SheetCell") Then
  return
End If
' do stuff here
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