Re: Use MySQL with Microsoft Office

2005-03-10 Thread Jigal van Hemert
From: "Patrick Connolly" > Somewhere about Wed, 09-Mar-2005 at 03:02PM +0100 (give or take), Jigal van Hemert wrote: > > |> From: "Curtis Maurand" > |> > Using ODBC, however, you can link Access tables to MySQL tables and use > |> > Access as the front end to MySQL. It works very nicely. > |> > |>

Re: Use MySQL with Microsoft Office

2005-03-09 Thread Patrick Connolly
Somewhere about Wed, 09-Mar-2005 at 03:02PM +0100 (give or take), Jigal van Hemert wrote: |> From: "Curtis Maurand" |> > Using ODBC, however, you can link Access tables to MySQL tables and use |> > Access as the front end to MySQL. It works very nicely. |> |> Using ODBC you can access MySQL fro

Re: Use MySQL with Microsoft Office

2005-03-09 Thread Jigal van Hemert
From: "Curtis Maurand" > Using ODBC, however, you can link Access tables to MySQL tables and use > Access as the front end to MySQL. It works very nicely. Using ODBC you can access MySQL from OpenOffice.org (which has an Access-like frontend built in), using ODBC and MS Jet engine (standard with

Re: Use MySQL with Microsoft Office

2005-03-09 Thread Curtis Maurand
Using ODBC, however, you can link Access tables to MySQL tables and use Access as the front end to MySQL. It works very nicely. Curtis Martijn Tonies said: >> > > Alternatively you could use OpenOffice.org > (http://www.openoffice.org/) >> > > which has built in MySQL support. >> > >> > Alterna

Re: Use MySQL with Microsoft Office

2005-03-08 Thread Martijn Tonies
> > > Alternatively you could use OpenOffice.org (http://www.openoffice.org/) > > > which has built in MySQL support. > > > > Alternatively, you could switch to MS Access, which is very well > > supported by Microsoft Office. > > > > :-) > mmhhh MySQL Vs. Access MS... just a little be different :-)

Re: Use MySQL with Microsoft Office

2005-03-08 Thread GH
I think I got it working I am printing out the records that I need... a bit of a 2 stepper but nice since I can store the queriy since that can not be done just yet in MySql On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 23:47:09 +0100, dixie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Il giorno mar, 08-03-2005 alle 13:46 +0100, Martijn

Re: Use MySQL with Microsoft Office

2005-03-08 Thread dixie
Il giorno mar, 08-03-2005 alle 13:46 +0100, Martijn Tonies ha scritto: > > Alternatively you could use OpenOffice.org (http://www.openoffice.org/) > > which has built in MySQL support. > > Alternatively, you could switch to MS Access, which is very well > supported by Microsoft Office. > > :-) mm

RE: Use MySQL with Microsoft Office

2005-03-08 Thread Gordon
: J.R. Bullington Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: Use MySQL with Microsoft Office Thank you all for your responses. The reason that I am currently asking about Publisher is that i do certificates for programs that my organization runs and I am able to in publisher mail merge the Proper Names of

Re: Use MySQL with Microsoft Office

2005-03-08 Thread GH
TECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 9:59 AM > To: GH > Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com > Subject: Re: Use MySQL with Microsoft Office > > From: "GH" > > Does Open Office have a MSPublisher like program? > > I'm not familiar with Publisher, but I gues th

RE: Use MySQL with Microsoft Office

2005-03-08 Thread J.R. Bullington
of 1.1.2, does not have a Publisher type equivalent. It also does not have an Access equivalent, hence MySQL interoperability. J.R. -Original Message- From: Jigal van Hemert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 9:59 AM To: GH Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re:

Re: Use MySQL with Microsoft Office

2005-03-08 Thread Jigal van Hemert
From: "GH" > Does Open Office have a MSPublisher like program? I'm not familiar with Publisher, but I gues that it is supposed to help you make publications in a kind of desktop pulishing way. In the article at http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/10/04/150207 the author compares Writer (the

Re: Use MySQL with Microsoft Office

2005-03-08 Thread Steve Buehler
For the answer to that question, you might just want to go see for yourself. http://www.openoffice.org/ Steve At 08:16 AM 3/8/2005, you wrote: Does Open Office have a MSPublisher like program? On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 12:43:01 +0100, Jigal van Hemert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: "Tom Crimmins" >

Re: Use MySQL with Microsoft Office

2005-03-08 Thread GH
Does Open Office have a MSPublisher like program? On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 12:43:01 +0100, Jigal van Hemert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: "Tom Crimmins" > > On Monday, March 07, 2005 23:03, GH wrote: > > > > > Greetings, I would like to know if it is possible to do a mail merge > > > in Microsoft

Re: Use MySQL with Microsoft Office

2005-03-08 Thread Martijn Tonies
> Alternatively you could use OpenOffice.org (http://www.openoffice.org/) > which has built in MySQL support. Alternatively, you could switch to MS Access, which is very well supported by Microsoft Office. :-) With regards, Martijn Tonies Database Workbench - developer tool for InterBase, Fireb

Re: Use MySQL with Microsoft Office

2005-03-08 Thread Jigal van Hemert
From: "Tom Crimmins" > On Monday, March 07, 2005 23:03, GH wrote: > > > Greetings, I would like to know if it is possible to do a mail merge > > in Microsoft Office with a mySql database as the source? > > > > Thanks > > You can use install MyODBC, set up a DSN, and then use this in Office. > > htt

RE: Use MySQL with Microsoft Office

2005-03-07 Thread Tom Crimmins
On Monday, March 07, 2005 23:03, GH wrote: > Greetings, I would like to know if it is possible to do a mail merge > in Microsoft Office with a mySql database as the source? > > Thanks You can use install MyODBC, set up a DSN, and then use this in Office. http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connecto