Hi: On GNU / Linux / Ubuntu, and of course in other distributions, there are to program that you would probe because could help you to export Access DB to open document:
1) MDBtools (View and export MSAccess db) 2) Kexi of Caligra Suite that say it is able to read MS Access db I hope this help, Regards, Jorge Rodríguez El sáb, 30-07-2016 a las 16:40 +0200, Harvey Nimmo escribió: > On Fri, 2016-07-29 at 20:53 -0600, Ken Springer wrote: > > The subject says it all, how successful is Base in importing Access > > Databases? > > > > LO 5.0.x > > > > -- > > Ken > > Mac OS X 10.8.5 > > Firefox 44.0 > > Thunderbird 38.0.1 > > "My brain is like lightning, a quick flash > > and it's gone!" > > > > > Unfortunately, MS Access users were spoilt with the 'complete' database > package supporting tables, queries, forms, reports and modules/macros. > Although its 'openness' or performance or compatibility with the rest > of the MS Office suite leave much to be desired (in my humble opinion) > the MSaccess package is a (more or less) complete solution. LibreOffice > on the other hand cannot match the user comfort (yet!). > > There is a tool, access2sql that to allows you to generate the sql > needed to build all your 'tables' again (including their data) and > 'queries'. But for the 'forms' and 'reports' you will have to start > from scratch in LOBase and, as I say, the user comfort for that is not > as mature as in MSAccess. In LOBase you can also write modules/macros > in Visual Basic. I have no experience of that either, but it does > suggest that VBA macros might with reservation be portable and > modifiable. > > In other words, i blieve it is not hopelessly impossible and > I am sure that the experts can add their 'two penn'orth' > > Cheers > Harvey > > > > -- Atentamente, Jorge Rodríguez -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
