I have Microsoft Office Professional 2003 SP2 installed on my computer at work, which is my church office where I am office administrator. Open Office 2.0 was recommended to me as a viable alternative to MS Office, and so far there do not seem to be any problems with the Writer componant, which is the one I have fished around most in. However, I have had some problems with the database componant.
I am running Windows XP Professional 5.1.2600 on a Dell Dimension 2600 with a 2.8 gigaherz Intel Pentium 4, 1 gig of RAM, and a 145 gig hard drive using NTFS file system which currently has 124 gig free space. I have had two problems. The first was encountered trying to create a new database using the new database wizard. When I got to the end of the 8 steps and clicked finish, it just sat there. The second is more of an issue right now, as it really interferes with the reason for using OO to begin with. I tried this morning to open the MS Access dabase that I do the most work with, which is the main membership list for our church. It's not a complicated database at this point in its development. There is only one table, one form and a couple of queries and reports. Nothing complicated, yet when I tried to open it, I got the following message: "Connection to database could not be established. Connection to external data source could not be established. Unknown error. Driver is probably defective." While the writer and presentation componants seem to be in good working order, it looks like there are still a few glitches in the database module. Can you offer any ideas or recommendations? Thanks, Dave Roth PS - I attempted to open another even smaller database - the attendance list of this summer's vacation Bible school - fewer than 50 records in a flat file database. I got a window with language information, and then it opened a writer window with 3,000 pages of garbage in it. D.
