On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 23:39 -0400, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: > Tom Tunstall wrote: > > > Dear Sir, > > > > I am very impressed with the Open Office Suite and have enjoyed > > getting to know it better. I have been trying to learn how to develop > > a data base with a friend and found it to be quite a task. I was > > unable to read a data base created with MS Access with an mdb > > extension. My intent was to review that data base and try to make > > sense of the OO suite. The info on the web site says the product is > > compatible with access. What might I be doing wrong? Also, are there > > any tutorials for using the Base function? > > > > Thanks, > > Tom > > No comment on accessing MS Access files. Primarily because I have not > really used Access. > You can probably find some documentation here: > http://www.oooauthors.org/en > > This is Beta, however, and the documentation is not finished. > I will eventually try to access an Access database. I have used it to > connect to MySQL, Paradox, text files, address books, spreadsheets, and > of course, their own format. >
Assuming you have windows, you use ADO as the driver to connect to Access. If you are on *NIX, you will have to install mdbtools to simulate the ADO interface. (See http://dba.openoffice.org/drivers/mdb/index.html for details) -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
