Am 20.12.2010 12:14, Tony Pursell wrote:
On Sun, 2010-12-19 at 17:24 -0600, Barbara Duprey wrote:
On 12/16/2010 5:13 PM, Bob Dennison wrote:
I have some database files I created in this format. (.wdb) What can I use to
open these files in Open Office so that I can edit them?
Bob D...
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OOo Base doesn't have a direct import from Works (or Access, for that matter).
If you have access to
Works, look to see how it can save or export its data; the most likely
possibility for a common
format is .csv, which can be used in either Base or Calc, depending on whether
you need a true
database or not.
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I can confirm that the version of Works that I have will save the
database (which is only a single flat file) in .csv format. So if you
can do that, you have two options
1. Open the .csv file in OpenOffice.org spreadsheet (Calc), save it
in .ods format, then register that as your data source (this is fine for
labels& mail merge, for instance)
2. Open the .csv file in OpenOffice,org spreadsheet (Calc), create a new
OpenOffice.org database (Base) and copy and paste the data into the
database.
3. Collect the csv tables in a separate directory and connect a Base
document to that directory. Now you can read the table data into office
doucments for mail merge or Calc models.
5. Create a native Base database and use the underlying HSQLDB engine to
prepare a set of text tables which then can be populated with the csv
content. This makes the csv files directly accessible and editable.
http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=83&t=23260
http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=75&t=23727
I hope this helps,
Andreas
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