On 02/04/2009 12:12 PM, Christian Ertlbauer wrote:
> hello,
> 
> i have a short question. i have a access 97 mdb file and must use
> this for my product calculations. but, office 97 is not vista 
> compatible and so i can´t use this file. is there any reason to open
> the file with open office? it´s very very important for me to use
> this mdb database but i don´t know how. i have no windows 98 and must
> using vista for my other programs. can you send me some infos about
> this?
> 

In addition to the advise from others on the list, please see:

http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/ms-access/ms-access.html
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Database

Note that you can only import the table data, not the reports.

To get Access 97 working on Vista, these _might_ be of help (I don't
know for sure as I do not have Vista and instead run Win2KPro in a
VirtuaBox machine via linux to run Access 97):

http://allenbrowne.com/bug-17.html
http://allenbrowne.com/ser-38.html

Note: if you get Access 97 working on Vista, I strongly recommend that
you migrate the data into an alternate database. These might be of interest:

http://kexi-project.org/about.html
[works on windows as well]
http://www.rot13.org/~dpavlin/sql.html
http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/active-grid.html
http://www.google.com/search?q=ms+access+97+%2Bmigration

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