The Tools menu in Calc has items: (1) Run Macro... (2) Organize Macros (3) Digital Signature (4) Organize Dialogs... The Tools->Organize Macros menu has items: (1) LibreOffice Basic (2) Python Use the Help dialog. Navigate Macros and Programming->General Information and User Interface Usage->LibreOffice Basic Help. Click on "Recording a Macro". This brings up a page that says it is possible to "Choose Tools->Macros->Record Macro." Has the macro recording feature been removed from the product? Has the menu item stranded it so it cannot be used? Or, is this just a documentation problem?
In Calc: 1 Tools->Customize 2 Menus tab 3 Menu: Tools | Macros The Menu Content list has entries: * Record Macro Run Macro... Organize Macros Digital Signature ----------------------------------------------- Organize Dialogs... The "Record Macro" entry has a red icon to it's left. I tried a work around 4 Choose Calc (radio button) 5 Change to the Keyboard tab 6 Click on Shift+F9 7 Choose Category: BASIC 8 Choose Function: Record Macros 9 Modify 10 Click on Shift+F10 11 Choose Category: BASIC 12 Choose Function: Record Macros 13 Modify 14 OK But Stop Macro seems not to work.
1 Tools > Options... 2 In the Options dialog: LibreOffice > General 3 Enable experimental (unstable) features: check This enables the Record Macro menu item. Is this a documentation bug? Downgrading to Normal severity.
Recording macros is an experimental feature because it is not stable.
In 3.5.2 it still considered as experimental. On Windows too. In Help is still nothing about experimental option.
same here: LibreOffice 3.5.4.2 Build ID: 350m1(Build:2) on a LinuxMint 12 (lisa) machine
LibO 3.6.0 rc2 has a separate box to activate macro recording: Tools->Options->LibreOffice->General->Enable macro recording (limited) However, the help dialog still does not mention that this option exists and that it is disabled by default. Since this is not specific for Calc (but also affects Writer) I consider this a documentation bug, hence the change in the component.
Thanks for additional testing and information "Version" is most old version where bug appears. Not current version. Changing back to 3.4.3
Why not unconditionally show the menu item "Record Macro" and when clicked tell the user that he/she has to enable experimental features? OpenOffice does show that menu item, libre office does not - if you don't use google (which luckely quickly shows this thread) - you think its not available anymore. Then you don't even need to modify the help
Marc: Macro recording is too experimental for the moment. You can read for example http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/PATCH-Give-Macro-recorder-separate-option-apart-from-Experimental-features-tp3989316p3991000.html *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 54699 ***