I did look at the Object Model, and if you ever had a look at the Microsoft Office Object Model, you know that using the OpenOffice.org object model is akin to having no templating system when you want to output text - all text in OOo must be created programmatically, and cursor placement as well - where the MSOffice model gives you collections to manipulate a document, OOo only allows you document creation but no (convenient) modification methods. Of course, this problem stems from the fact that OOo is basically StarOffice, which was written by Sun in Java, and not oriented at the (existing, and even then well-working) MS Office object model. If one were to write an office suite, copying the MS Office object model is the best way.

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