So Rosemary has been working on one of my core hacks (actually she is the first to work on any of our core hacks, so congratulations for that), namely the VBA export to OOXML.

The missing VBA export is one of the old limitations of our OOXML filter. While we are able to save the unchanged stream back to an OOXML file we can’t save any modifications at the moment. With Rosemary’s work this will hopefully change in 5.1 and we will no longer loose macro changes when saving to OOXML.

To make sure that we deliver a good new feature it would be awesome if some of you who have real VBA documents can send a few to libreoffice.vba.export !at! gmail dot com. Currently we are using a few simple self generated documents but they surely miss a lot of the real world corner cases. This includes especially Excel functions defined in VBA and their use case. While I’m reading the VBA and the OOXML spec I ha to discover that MSO documents don’t completely follow the spec.

I’ll write a more detailed blog post once this feature hits master and I have an idea which features we can preserve during our export.