On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 19:15:45 -0000, martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dear Sirs.
After downloading and installing OOo 2.0 for both Windows, and Linux
(i86) I was gratified to find that in the Windows version I can at least
import tables from an M$ Access database. I was extremely disapointed
however to find that the same capability does not exist in the Linux
version. On top of that disapointment, when I saved an imported
database in the Windows version of OOo, the Linux version would not open
it. While some work has been done on the OOo Base application, a lot of
work remains to be done. If M$ Office users are going to switch from M$
Access to OOo Base, ALL versions (Windows and Linux) of the app need to
be able to open an M$ Access database, and save it to an OOo database
and have EVERYTHING work exactly as it did in M$ Access. Nothing less
will satisfy most M$ Access users. While such a conversion might be
complex, even requiring another external app, it should be possible. The
other OOo apps that I have tried work very well (I have never been an
M$ Word fan...Wordperfect is much much better!). I hope that work will
continue on the Base app to make it capable of complete conversion of
M$ Access Databases to OOo database format. Keep up the good work, and
thanks for a good alternative to Micro$haft software!
For linux you need mdb-tools, http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net/
An alternative you can also convert your ACCESS into MySQL data using the
migration toolkit:
http://www.mysql.com/products/tools/migration-toolkit/
--
Alexandro Colorado
CoLeader of OpenOffice.org ES
http://es.openoffice.org
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