On 25/12/2007, at 11:32 AM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
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.
Certainly that was what I was referring to here.
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.
Yeah, I am sure that could be done without using MS Access itself, as
long as you have the mdb file. The screenshots for comparison would
of course require the MS Access package, but otherwise it should be
fine.
BTW, the bit on using OOo with Access is in Chapter 8 of the draft
outline for the Base Guide.
Will check that out when I get a chance to try my login again ;)
Regards
Jonathon
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