Carbone.io-util

Carbone is a fantastic way to generate report starting from LibreOffice™ or Microsoft Office™ (ods, docx, odt, xslx...) documents. All you have to do is to add a mustache-like placeholder {d.companyName} in your template.

Table of content

• The problem
• The solution
• Minimum Requirements
  • LibreOffice™
• Getting started
  • LibreOffice™
• Contributors

The problem

You have a big template with alot of placeholder {}, i.e.:

It is very difficult to distinguish between text and placeholder. The more your template grows the more it seems a mess 😵‍💫.

The solution

The easiest thing to do is hightlight placeholders! 🤓

Minimum Requirements

LibreOffice™

Macro is tested on LibreOffice 7.5.x, but it probably works with an older version as well.

Getting started

LibreOffice™

• download file CarboneIO-LibreOffice_Module.bas
• open LibreOffice™ Writer
• menu Tools > Macros > Edit Macros...

In the macros IDE:

• menu File > Import BASIC...
• select file CarboneIO-LibreOffice_Module.bas

Return to LibreOffice™ Writer:

• add some text and placeholders like:

  Dear {d.name} {d.surname},
  {d.years} years have passed since we met in {d.city}.
  

• menu Tools > Macros > Run Macro...

• choose highlightCarbonePlaceholder

  

That is! 🥳

Contributors

Many thanks to KamilLanda 💪 that helped me so much with the LibreOffice™'s macro.