Stephan G escribió:
Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote:
Hello Stephan,
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did you read the Wiki pages, for example
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/MSA-Base_Faq
I did look at this -- but I am hoping to find something that is more
like a textbook than a set of questions, some with answers and some
without.
I'm a bit old-fashioned in the sense that a bound book is something I
actually like,
Me too :-)
"Stephan" sound like German, are you/do you read German? In the famous
on-line bookstore (in order not to mention trademarks: the one that
starts with "A", like the tropical forest from Brasil - but not ending
with .com but .de) you can type "openoffice.org base" and find Thomas
Krumbein, u.a.
You are correct -- I can read German, but very slowly. (It was my first
language but has fallen into appalling shape due to lack of use, and
technical documentation is particularly difficult).
I have looked on the "rainforest site" in the U.S., and the pickings
seem slim. For the OpenOffice books where you can "look inside", and
check out the table of contents, there is not even a chapter on Base.
General problem with free-software related books is that things change
vertiginously, an a printed edition gets old pretty soon.
Very true -- hence my willingness to work from online sources -- but I'm
really looking for something that really starts from the beginning and
takes you through the steps not only to create databases, but also to
really understand what you are doing as you go along -- also on the
coding side.
I'm sorry to say that you're willing something that does not exist at
the moment (AFAIK). I can quote you only some good tutorials, but
something covering everything related to OOo, step-by-step, and in-deep
explained, you won't find.
If you read *German*, although you do it slowly, as this tutorials have
lots of screen shots, you may easily understand them:
http://de.openoffice.org/doc/einfuehrungen/base/Einfuehrung_Base.pdf
http://de.openoffice.org/doc/oooauthors/base_entwurf_einer_datenbank.pdf
If you read *French*, the French Documentation Project is the best I've
seen about OOo in general, and also has good material about OOo Base
http://fr.openoffice.org/Documentation/How-to/indexht-base.html
In English sure you have already search and found.
Have you seen the "Getting started with Base" guide?
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOoAuthors_User_Manual/Getting_Started/Getting_Started_with_Base
The help system in OpenOffice is behind the curve (also
completely understandable -- hey I'm not complaining when the software
is free!)
Unfortunately, I must agree: Help system is rather cryptic, without
screen shots, samples, etc.
Regards
Ariel
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Ariel Constenla-Haile
La Plata, Argentina
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- Was mich nicht umbringt,
macht mich härter."
Nietzsche Götzendämmerung, Sprüche und Pfeile, 8.
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