With OOo runing and a spreadsheet open - run the  macro below(substituting a valid 
spreadsheet file name), it opens a spreadsheet and then selects sheet1:A1 to bring the sheet 
into focus. This works on OOo 1.0.2 but on OOo 1.1RC5 the spreadsheet that was already 
open is selected instead(about 80% of the time). This causes the rest of the macro to fail. 
When I added the line: 
 
wait 2000 
 
the proper selection was made every time. 
 
Perhaps the line: 
 
oSourceDoc=oDesk.loadComponentFromURL(sUrl,"_blank",0,NoArg()) 
 
returns before the spreadsheet has the focus and as a result the original spreadsheet is 
selected by the lines following. 
 
I commented the wait line so that it would be in failure mode if copied and run. 
 
The code below  
  <snip> 
sUrl = "File:///home/sxc/challenge.sxc" 
if (fileexists (sUrl)) <> 0 then 
        'open spreadsheet. 
        oDesk = createUnoService("com.sun.star.frame.Desktop") 
        Dim NoArg() 
oSourceDoc=oDesk.loadComponentFromURL(sUrl,"_blank",0,NoArg()) 
rem wait 2000 
oSourceSheet= oSourceDoc.Sheets(0) 
oSourceRange = oSourceSheet.getCellRangeByPosition(0,0,0,0) 
ThisComponent.CurrentController.Select(oSourceRange) 
else 
        exit sub 
end if 
<snip>