yuou may try to insert a shell command in the code to call external programs or functions: Sub ExampleShellForWin Shell("c:\windows\calc.exe",2) end sub http://help.libreoffice.org/Basic/Other_Commands http://help.libreoffice.org/Basic/Shell_Function_Runtime http://help.libreoffice.org/Basic/Environ_Function_Runtime http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=2203529 http://forum.ubuntu-it.org/viewtopic.php?t=503012 http://en.libreofficeforum.org/node/227 ________________________________ From: Ian Whitfield <whitfield@telkomsa.net> To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Saturday, December 1, 2012 2:21 PM Subject: [libreoffice-users] LO Base - Adding an eMail button? Hi All I'm running LO 3.6.2.2 on PCLOS 2012. I have a Membership Database running with LO Base as the Front End and MySQL as the engine. I have added a "Send" button to the Form to be able to send an eMail to the Member directly. But I need help in setting-up the Button Properties to do this. I would like it, (if possible), to extract the eMail address from the form, open my Mail Client (Thunderbird) and insert that address into the mail for me. Can anyone assist me? Many thanks IanW Pretoria RSA -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+help@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+help@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted