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{ Monthly Archives } September 2009

OpenOffice.org quirks

Some of the first things I needed to get straight to move from Microsoft Office scripting to Open Office scripting: The BASIC isn't quite compatible: I know the object model is completely different, but even the underlying language isn't quite the same. I wanted to use the InStrRev function, but it wasn't there! Then I […]

Diving into OpenOffice.org

My hospital isn't fully electronic yet; they use a hybrid system where doctors notes and orders are written on paper, to be scanned into the electronic chart at the end of the patient's stay. Everything else (nurse's notes, labs, radiology results) are electronic. It actually works pretty well, with most of the advantages of an […]