Steve, OpenOffice open Legacy databases pretty much like Access does. I haven't done much more that create queries and a few forms but it works successfully. Docs for OO are on-line and are plentiful.
Jim On 5/11/06, Steve Hayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 11 May 2006 at 7:54, Dennis Kowallek wrote: > On Thu, 11 May 2006 06:46:25 -0400, "Coddgenealogy" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >but you certainly don't need to know a lot about relational databases or > >visual basic. > > I will agree with the Visual Basic part (unless you want to do really > complex things in Access requiring VBA). But you certainly need to have > some familiarity with the concept of relational databases in order to > join tables, etc. > > If you are willing to spend the jack for Access, it can't do any harm to > play around with it (on a copy of your db) to gain this familiarity. But > for some people this would be a waste of $$$. A cheap alternative would be OpenOffice, though I don't know how easy it wopuld be to user it for looking at Legacy tables, and the documentation is probably even harder to come by. -- Steve Hayes E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.geocities.com/hayesstw/stevesig.htm Phone: 083-342-3563 or 012-333-6727 Enter the drawing for a FREE Legacy Cruise to Alaska or a FREE research trip to Salt Lake's Family History Library. Open to users of Legacy 6 Deluxe. Enter online at http://legacyfamilytree.com/FreeTrip.asp Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
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