I can't save you, but I can help you: reverse-complementing a DNA in OpenOffice

People in my lab are using "Microsoft Word" to edit and annotate their sequences. Just like Neil, I can't save them but I can help them: here is an OpenOffice / LibreOffice macro reverse-complementing the current selected text.

• open libreoffice/openoffice
• Open menu "Tools / Macros / Organize macros / Basic...
• Select "My Macros/Standard" and click on "New"
• Copy+paste my macro here
• Click on the top button "compile"
• Close the dialog
• Menu "Tools/Customize" , "Keyboard" tab, "Toolbar content" . Button "Add... " / Category "Libre Office Macros" . Select "My Macro/Standard/Modulexxx"/ReverseComplementSelection". Click on "Modify" to assign an icon to this new button
• There is now a new button in the toolbar. Clicking on that button reverse-complements the selected text.

That's it,

Pierre

PS: Hum ? what did you say, they use Microsoft Word ? Not OpenOffice ? pfff....