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Can I use macros from Microsoft office templates in open office?

I am testing the water with open office and have been largely very impressed so far. Something I frequently use in Microsoft word is a screenwriting template called simply screen play. It's a .dot file and contains macros to automatically format as you type. So far the macros have worked, but only for automatic formatting, the template also comes with a toolkit of icons that execute specific macros for screenplay formatting and this is conspicuously absent. Anyone know if I can retrieve them and how?

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1. OpenOffice.org has a number of different internal macros languages, but they are all different from Microsoft’s VBA. Any macro written in Microsoft's VBA will be retained if you read the file into OpenOffice.org. But it won’t do anything. You would have to rewrite the macrol in OpenOfffice.org Basic or another OpenOffice.org language. A screen-writing add-on for OpenOffice.org Writer is available at http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/scr2 . Perhaps it will do what you want.