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If you are comfortable in using Thunderbird as you data source, you can
fill in the information that you want to have in it. Then you can use
Base to connect to it creating Thunderbird.odb. When you open this file
you will have all of the information that is in Thunderbird's Address
Book at your finger tips. Both AOO and LIbreOffice will open this file.
Important: Any changes you want to make in the address information has
to be made in the Thunderbird Address Book. Base only shows the
information that is contained in this address book. However, you can
still create queries, forms, and reports using this information. This
opens up all kinds of ways to work with this information. If, for
example, you wanted to send a single email to several different people
at one time, this can be done by AOO or LibreOffice. It is called mail
merge. Just some thoughts.
Dan
Peter Kovacs <pe...@apache.org>
Hi,
I would say it depends what your goal is.
Is it a simple Address List, then Calc is the way to go. Do you want to
do complex stuff with the List then you may want to consider a database
approach and look if you base is sufficient.
I would personally install locally an Email App and use the build in
Address book (maybe Thunderbird?). If you configure to sync Google then
you have an easy job syncing the Addresses between your PC, Google and
even to an Android Smart phone will be simple. And you can then maintain
your address List on your phone. This works for me.
All the Best
Peter
On 4/17/20 16:34, Vince@GMAIL wrote:
Hi:
I am staying at home and have time on my hands, so I think this might
be a good time to generate an updated telephone/address book in a PC
format.
Can anyone suggest a "relatively" simple database template for
tracking Names, Postal Addresses, Telephone numbers-House, Telephone
numbers-Cell, Telephone numbers-Businesses, Medical offices' data, etc?
I started by exporting my Contacts from the GMAIL website for my one
@gmail.com email account, and have that data now on my WIN10-x64
desktop PC as a .CSV file (to Excel). I also plan to eventually enter
the data from a paper telephone/address book into a database. I am
not certain which to use, (vers 4.1.5) AOO-Calc or AOO-Base. I also
have Libre Office (Version: 6.3.4.2 (x64)
Build ID: 60da17e045e08f1793c57c00ba83cdfce946d0aa) installed, but am
even less skilled with its operation.
1. Should I go with AOO-Calc or attempt to learn more about AOO-Base
for this project?
2. Any suggestion for a template file would be appreciated.
Thanks for reading this.
Regards and stay safe,
VinceB.
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