Paul, OpenOffice has five different components: Writer, Calc, Draw, Impress, and Base. I don't think it can recognize a Base file from a system double-click or other system routing. Try opening OO, then tell it to open the file you were sent. It may not work, but it's worth a try.
Jim Plante On Feb 28, 2014, at 4:11 PM, Paul <[email protected]> wrote: > A friend recently has started using OO. He e-mailed me a .odb file. as a > attachment > I downloaded /installed OO V4.0.1 > I clicked the attachment option to open with OO; OO opened, the file is > there as recent file > but did not open. Thre file is a list of volunteers/addresses etc. > Please advise > Paul > > ------------------------------------------- > List Conduct Guidelines: http://openoffice.apache.org/list-conduct.html > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > ------------------------------------------- List Conduct Guidelines: http://openoffice.apache.org/list-conduct.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
