Re: [LegacyUG] Can Access 97 read current Legacy DB?

[Roy Ayres]

After rebuilding my PC (nothing to do with genealogy but quite a lot to do 
with my own stupidity - don't ask .... ) I've downloaded OpenOffice and it 
works just fine - I didn't have to rename to .mdb though, just used the ADO 
data source and selected one of my Legacy databases directly. Now all I have
to do is to learn how to use OpenOffice to do what I want. Thanks for the 
tip!

regards
Roy Ayres (Eltham, UK)
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "The Johnson's" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <LegacyUserGroup@mail.millenniacorp.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2005 11:59 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Can Access 97 read current Legacy DB?


I just downloaded the latest OpenOffice package from openoffice.org and it 
reads the database just fine.  You have to change the extension on your 
data to .mdb instead of .fdb

Brian

Several people have mentioned using Access directly on the Legacy 
tables
recently. I only have Access 97, which can't do this directly. Has
anyone got a workaround?

There seems to be no workaround, except using Access 2000 or above.

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