Submit tweet to Twitter directly from OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice.org is a free office application suite that can read and write most of the file formats found in Microsoft Office, and many other applications. Now you can easily submit tweet to Twitter directly from OpenOffice.org.

OOoTwitter-1.0.0.oxt is an extension which you need to import to the office application suite in order to submit tweet to Twitter directly from OpenOffice.org. The extension only works on Windows and Linux. Before you start, you should have a Twitter account from Twitter.com and OpenOffice suite in your computer. Then, follow the simple steps below to submit tweets to twitter.

1. Open and launch OpenOffice.
2. In Menu Bar, Navigate to Tools -> Extension Manager. Double Click on My Extensions. And then click ADD.
3. Browse and locate OOOTWITTER-1.0.0.OXT you just downloaded on you computer. Click Open.
4. After the installation completes click on Close.

As you are using the extension for the first time, replace the username and password string in the macro with your Twitter user name and password. Follow the steps to get it done:

1. Navigate to Tools -> Macros -> Organize macros -> OpenOffice. Org Basic.
2. Navigate to oootwitter -> oootwitter -> posttotwitter Macro, and then double click to open.
3. You will notice the Twitter Box. Click Ok to open the “My Macros and Dialogs”. Navigate to oootwitter - openoffice.org Basic Dialog Box.
4. Search for the following code -
   TwMessage=h -u username:yourpassword -d status=h & gh & Tweet & gh & h http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xmlh
5. Add your username and password to this string. Suppose your username is Michael27 and password is ondemand then the string would be –
   TwMessage=h -u Michael27: ondemand -d status=h & gh & Tweet & gh & h http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xmlh
6. Click on Save Button.
7. Close and launch OPENOFFICE again.

You can now start Twittering. To twitter:

1. Navigate to Tools-> Add-ons -> Post to Twitter
2. Just Enter your message and click Ok. OpenOffice users can now tweet easily.
   
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