Jonathon Coombes wrote:
Dan Lewis wrote:
Do you have Microsoft Access installed? I don't, and I have never
used >> this program (Access). So, someone else will need to provide
the content on using OOo as the front end for Access.
Please no! :)
I have not used MS Windows for quite some years, but I could probably do
the testing and processing using other techniques and a friends
computer. Is that the first part we are looking at doing here? I know
they have comparative guides between Writer vs Word and Calc vs Excel
etc, are we looking at doing one for Base vs MS Access?
I don't think a Base vs Access comparison is intended (or
appropriate) for the Base Guide, though it would be a good
addition to the Migration Guide.
I think Dan is referring to the fact that if someone has an
Access database, they can use OOo to extract information from it,
prepare reports, etc; I have done some of that with an old Access
2000 database I have. I think it only works on Windows, though,
and I'm not sure whether OOo can be used to edit the Access d/b.
Whatever the case is, there needs to be info about it in the Base
Guide. IIRC, I turned the Access d/b into a Base d/b, so I could
use it on Linux as well; but I don't remember what I did to
achieve this.
BTW, the bit on using OOo with Access is in Chapter 8 of the
draft outline for the Base Guide.
--Jean
