Hi There
I've used LibreOffice succesfully now for the last two years (I think),
ever since I found out OpenOffice was being managed and taken over by
Oracle. I also migrated to it under Windows due to it becoming the
standard in Ubuntu Linux, may main O/S of choice.
No problems to date
On 27/03/2012, nik naikyn...@googlemail.com wrote:
Dear all, I'm writing a long dissertation and therefore I'm using a master
document. In LB3.4 the master document was working fine, with 3.5 instead
the figure numbering went crazy - the figure fields showed no sources
found or something
I saw an article that we can link microsoft access with libre database, but i
could not figure out if the one that sent the access file had to send the
link or if I could initiate the link. also if I can link the file how is it
done? Also does it link with MS office 2003? I would like to make this
The required database drivers come from Microsoft. Microsoft will never
pubilish these drivers for Linux. Let Access export your data to dBase,
connect one Base document to the dBase tables, another Base document to your
preferred database (MySQL for instance) and copy over the dBase tables to
On 04/02/2012 01:11 AM, e-letter wrote:
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On a second question, how to view the version of LO installed, from
the gnu/linux command terminal?
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$ locate versionrc
then cat the file. Example:
$ locate versionrc
/opt/libreoffice/basis3.3/program/versionrc
/opt/libreoffice/program/versionrc
One method is to find a decent back end such as MySQL and move
your table across, while temporarily maintaining your front end in
Access. MySQL has a migration assistant which may help here.
In Access, link to the new tables, and pretend nothings changed.
This also gives yo
