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Windmill Route Data from Transducers and Laboratory Instruments into OpenOffice
and Windmill software reads data from instruments and devices connected to your PC. We have a range of drivers for many
types of equipment, and our generic serial communication driver is now free to our newsletter subscribers. This means that
OpenOffice you can acquire data from instruments with RS232 ports, and import it into OpenOffice.
Importing Logged Data into OpenOffice | Acquiring Live Data in OpenOffice | More Information
The code that will be inserted if you choose to paste All Channels is
{=DDE("WINDMILL","Data","AllChannels")}
and for one channel called Chan_00
{=DDE("WINDMILL","Data","Chan_00")}
1. Load Windmill DDE Panel and start collecting data from your instrument.
2. Load OpenOffice with a clean sheet, and then select menu item Tools.Macros.Macro.
3. Click the Edit button.
4. To read data from one channel connected to the Windmill DDE Panel and place it into a cell in the spreadsheet,
create the following code.
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5. To continually read data and write it into OpenOffice:
Copyright Windmill SoftwareFormat the first column to show Time (Format menu > Cells > Time).
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Change the channel name (in our example 00001) to match yours. Search
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TimeCol = 0
DataCol = 1
NoOfRows = 4
FirstRow = NoOfRows
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