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The com.sun.star.sheet.GlobalSheetSettings service contains settings that affect the whole spreadsheet application. It can be instantiated through the service manager. The properties are accessed using the com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet interface.

The following example gets the list of user-defined sort lists from the settings and displays them:

 // --- Get the user defined sort lists ---
 Object aSettings = xServiceManager.createInstance("com.sun.star.sheet.GlobalSheetSettings");
 com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet xPropSet = (com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet)
     UnoRuntime.queryInterface( com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet.class, aSettings );
 String[] aEntries = (String[]) xPropSet.getPropertyValue("UserLists");
 System.out.println("User defined sort lists:");
 for (int i=0; i<aEntries.length; i++)
     System.out.println( aEntries[i] );