[libreoffice-users] Re: Renaming Tabs in a spreadsheet in bulk.

Am 03.02.2012 21:18, Dan Lewis wrote:
>       Might there be another method? I just unzipped a Calc spreadsheet.
> Then I looked at the Context.xml. I found:
> "<table:table table:name =" (tab name) .
>   Could this help some?
>
> --Dan

Well, for someone who loves when others write free code, using a text 
editor is totally inacceptable.
A double-click on the sheet tab is too much, same with Alt-click on the 
sheet tab since you have to type the sheet name. All this is too 
cumbersome for today's computer wimps. During the hours they beg for 
code snippets they could rename thousands of sheets manually.
Now he has plonked me, I hope that he will not notice the following 
snippet which does a better job for hundreds of sheets starting at the 
active one.

Sub NameMonthSheets()
REM you may modify the following format string for the sheet names:
Const cOutFormat = "YYYY-MMM"

sm = InputBox("Starting with the active sheet, subsequent sheets will be 
renamed to months like """& _
format(Now(),cOutFormat)&""""& chr(10)& _
"Please enter the start month as 2 numbers with a dash (YYYY-MM)","macro 
RenameMonthSheets()", _
format(Now(),"YYYY-MM")
on error goto noInputErr
        dStart = cdate(sm &"-01")
on error goto 0
im = Month(dStart)
iy = Year(dStart)
ish = ThisComponent.CurrentController.ActiveSheet.RangeAddress.Sheet
for i = ish to ThisComponent.Sheets.getCount()-1
        x = im mod 12
        if x = 0 then
                x =12
        elseif (x = 1)and(i > ish) then
                iy = iy +1
        endif
        With ThisComponent.Sheets.getByIndex(i)
                .setName(format(cDate(iy &"-"& x  &"-01"),cOutFormat))
        end with
        im = im +1
next
noInputErr:
End Sub


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