John Jason Jordan wrote:
I have OOo 2.3 on Ubuntu Gutsy and everything is working fine. However,
now I need to merge some data from a database file created in Microsoft
Access 2000 (data.mdb). I need to merge it into a Writer text file. The
Help file isn't helping and I can't figure out how to do it. I know it
is ODBC compatible, but when I select that OOo does not show the file.
It appears that I need to "register" the database with OOo, but I am
clueless how to do that when OOo does not even see the file.
Is there a step by step how-to somewhere?
Support for MS Access data files (*.mdb) has been dropped under Linux in
the main OpenOffice.org builds. Same is true for most of the distro
versions also.
You have a couple of choices - Fire up OO.o under Windows and import the
data into a Base file. Export the data from the mdb file to csv files (
mdbtools should do that right - or so I hear) and then either connect to
them as a TEXT Base file or import them into Base or Calc under Linux.
Drew
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