On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 11:41 AM, Chuck Popenoe <[email protected]> wrote:
> I admit I'm a newbie for OO, but was quite familiar with MS Access. I > brought in my source data file from Access, and have used OO to print > labels > for Christmas cards. However, some of the addresses, etc. have changed and > I need to edit the changes. I bring in my source file, and there is a > button labeled "Edit Source Data" or something similar, but the button is > grayed out and is inoperable! Nothing that I have tried allows editing the > Hello Chuck, am not 100% certain but sounds very much to me as if the table doesn't have a primary key. When I first started using Base I was confounded by being able to create tables by import from csv and spreadsheet files but not edit them. Eventually someone told me all tables need a primary key to be editable. Once I added primary keys the tables could be edited. Given my prior experiences this was totally unexpected and so quite surprising but it worked.
