On 07/30/2010 12:39 PM, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
On 30/07/10 17:28, webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote:
On 07/30/2010 12:12 PM, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
On 30/07/10 16:56, Earl Melton wrote:
Greetings All,
I am new to Linux and this is my first post to the forum. Hope I do it
right. While I have often used OOo Writer and Calc in Windows, I had
never opened Base. The subject line was going to read, "Did Base not
come with Ubuntu?" because there was no way to start it. I played with
Synaptic, though, and now have access to Base. In starting my first
file, it immediately asks me, "Do you want the wizard to register the
database in OpenOffice.org?" My question is, Why would I want to do
that? I answered No because I don't really see the need. Would one (or
more) of you more experienced users please enlighten me? Many TIA!
If it's an address database then Open Office can use that for mailing
labels and such like...
I do not see the database as an option in my Ubuntu version of OOo.
It is grayed out of the menu screen.
When you say "greyed out" in the Menu screen, where EXACTLY are you looking?
The Welcome to
OpenOffice.org "menu"
that lists two columns of document types, plus templates and open a
document.
The same place you get to when you are in Writer and X out of the
current document.
The Database Icon was grayed out
I solved that problem myself - I think
I had to go back to the Synaptic Package Manager and browse everything
associated
with "openoffice". Even though there was an OpenOffice.org package with
a greened box,
I checked everything that was shown to belong with an English version of
OOo. It seemed
that there was an OOo package shown that did not have a greened box.
I do not know if I would tell anyone else to do it this way.
That was a surprise since OOo is installed by default with OOo. I
cannot install it from the
OOo site's deb files since there is a menu conflict. Stopped trying
with Ubuntu 9.10. I wait
for the repository to do the updates, and see it once in a while.
So, for some reason, the installed version of OOo would not list the
Database part as a functional
option to use. That was surprising to me. I did not know there was a
flavor that had the Database
turned off. The one that comes with Ubuntu 10.04 sure did. I will have
to recheck my latest Windows
version to see it as well. I hardly use the Database anymore, as well
as the initial menu that comes
with 3.x, but was not there in 2.x.
Someone out there should know what this was all about.
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