Ron,
Turns out I misspoke. Going back to the computer I did the editing on, I
actually had used Access and not OpenOffice. I did find this information
however
(http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Connecting_to_Microsoft_Access),
and started some testing. If you take the Legacy database .fdb and rename to
.mdb you can follow those instructions and link from OO to that database.
That *should* allow editing and saving the changes. (the little I did seemed
to work fine) When finished, rename back to .fdb. You cannot go from the
OpenOffice native file type of .odb and save as an .mdb file.
Gary Templeman
----- Original Message -----
From: "ronald ferguson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 3:11 AM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Merging Master Sources problem
Hi Gary.
There is an error in my last email in that I should have said "MDB" format
and not "DOC".
I know there is no problem in using OOo writer to amend a GEDCOM but I have
yet to find a suitable way of using OOo Base to amend an OOo ODS file and
then reformat as an MS MDB. Converting to a GEDCOM and changing that in OOo
before re-importing may be a way of block changing many files.
Ron Ferguson
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Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Merging Master Sources problem
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 21:12:49 -0800
My Legacy file was a conversion from a previous PAF file. I used OO to
edit
and correct hundreds of notes that did not format properly when a gedcom
was originally imported into PAF. Scrolling down the column in OO was much
easier than having to open each record individually. I did not do any
other
manipulation beyond the data in the table itself, I used no macros and I
saved it back with the same extension. No corruption at all. As always, if
you have a good backup you can experiment without risk.
Gary Templeman
----- Original Message -----
From: "ronald ferguson"
To:
Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2008 1:52 PM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Merging Master Sources problem
At present I would only consider using Open Office for searching the
Legacy
database and not for making changes. In fact I am uncertain if one can
write
amendments back into the DOC format and I know that the macros are
different
so it could well corrupt your file should you attempt it.
I am slowly, very slowly, looking into this.
Ron Ferguson
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Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 10:48:15 -0600
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Merging Master Sources problem
Thanks Ronald and Dennis for your responses, but darn. I do not have
Access. I do have Open Office Database, but I don't believe I've ever
had a need to use it before, so I'm not very comfortable giving it a
whirl right now.
Cathy, I cannot find anything in the Source Detail anywhere. I tried
highlighting various fields to see if there was a secret space
somewhere and I cannot find it. Also thanks for the heads up on the
list. I did know about Gmail, but the lag on messages making it to the
list is frustrating at times.
*le sigh*
Well it could be worse I suppose. At least it's only about 40-50
people. It could be my whole database! :)
I would like to quickly add that it would be nice to see a feature
that might fix this problem... if it's possible of course.
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