saving a dialog

I recently updated Open Office and clicked the wrong button and lost all the macros and the dialog that I had spent so long on. They were nowhere to be found. However, in looking through computer files and then finally doing a search at the OpenOffice Forum, I now know where my newly created macros are -- which doesn't help too much since they're pretty well buried.
However, while playing around, I found out that one can "export" a library of macros and dialogs. So, now I have the library that I'm recreating copied to a folder on the desktop. It could be worse. I still have my old Visual Basic macros and dialog.