Lock fields to convert DOC to PDF

[psun03]

I am writing a Basic Macro that will open a WORD file and save it as PDF. The WORD doc converts just fine, except some of the documents have fields in them. I have written something in with the OFFICE Word macro, but I am new to the OpenOffice Macro world.

in my original MS Word macro I have this statement

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    For Each oRange In oDoc.StoryRanges
            oRange.Fields.Locked = True
        Next

The code above looks through the Word document and locks fields. I am looking for code that will do similar but for OpenOffice.
Thankss

[JeJe]

OpenOffice Writer doesn't appear to have the equivalent of locking fields. There is thiscomponent.lockcontrollers/thiscomponent.unlockcontrollers which is similar to stopping application.screenupdating in VBA.

If you say more about what the problem is with the converting with the fields - maybe someone can provide a solution. Perhaps post an example document.