Thanks. Step 1 in the first reference worked okay.
However, I canot find any reference to "Data Sources" under "tools" in any OOo application. What am I missing? Robert -----Original Message----- From: Dave Barton [mailto:] Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 12:56 PM To: Robert Crick Cc: users@openoffice.org; 'Paul' Subject: RE: [users] [moderated] Accessing Access On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 11:44 +1000, Robert Crick wrote: > I have Windows XP professional. > > Nevertheless, I downloaded and installed JRE 5.0 Update 4 as advised > in yiour email. > > When trying to openb a Microsoft Access file I'm now getting the following: > > "Connection to [file name] could not be established. Connection to > external data source could not be established. Unknown error occurred. > The driver is probably defective." > > The data is there, as I just created an Excel chart from the Data in > the Access file. > > Any suggestions please? > > Robert Sorry, but being a Linux user, I am not overly familiar with Access. However, I did recently see a reference on one of the OOo lists to a document which may be of some help to you. I can't remember or find the original link, so I pulled it out of my browser cache and put it here: http://home.iprimus.com.au/bmcs1/ooo_access.pdf If you are planning to work extensively with OOo's database functions, you might take a look at http://dba.openoffice.org/ and maybe subscribe to their mailing list. HTH Dave --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
