I believe the current version of OpenOffice (free) has a database function
that will open Access database files. No matter what program you use, if you
want to manipulate your data directly, always work on a copy to be safe.
Gary Templeman
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gail Nestor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2007 1:14 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Sources
If only I had a copy of Access! I used it a long time ago quite
extensively, but I only had it at work. I would buy a copy now, but
can't justify the cost for just this when I want so purchase so many
other genealogy resources.
Gail Rich Nestor
Smyrna, GA
www.roots2buds.net
On Dec 30, 2007 3:47 PM, M. Brenzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I had a situation that I found where in some source details I had "page"
and in others "Page". I wanted to make them consistent. Doing it
through Legacy would have been quite a task. I opened the database in
Access, found the correct table, created a query of the source detail
field, sorted it and was able to make all of my entries consistent.
Search and Replace was very easy.
I know that this is not something that everyone using Legacy can do,
whether it is because they don't have Access or don't know really how to
use it. But this was a quick fix for me and I am very happy making
these changes so easily.
Mary
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