Firstly, congratulations on OOo 2.0 I have been an OOo user from the first release (1.0), and a great advocate of it, but only recently downloaded version 2.0 (stable), and I must say that it is fantastic - something to be very proud of and definitely the world's best office suite.
I was particularly excited by the inclusion of Base. I played with Base in the Beta version, but was like a kid with a new toy with the latest release of it. It looks and feels fantastic I learned Access at Uni and Base is so excellent, and user friendly as well. Please don't take this as any form of criticism, because I am sure that Base will soon take over as the desktop relational database of choice, but here are a few little challenges I have, which might be bugs, or might mean that I need to learn Base properly before putting it into routine use. I defined a couple of tables: tblCustomers (Primary Key: CustID) & tblJobs (PK: JobNumber .... Foreign Key: CustID) Then I used the wizard to produce two forms: frmCustomers (with a subform based on tblJobs, related through CustID), & frmJobs (with a subform based on tblCustomers, related through CustID). I was impressed with the form I saw in the background, behind the wizard dialogue box. I ticked the "Start working with the form" checkbox and then clicked "Finish" (I intended to use the form to add data to the tables) Then the wizard closed down; the form closed down; Open Office closed down; and the Quick Starter disappeared from the System Tray near the clock (Windows XP SP2). Am I doing something wrong? I got a bit further last night, by populating the tables first before creating the forms, but came unstuck when I renamed a table: I renamed "Customers" TO "tblCustomers". I was not surprised when I went to look at one of the above forms and received an error message saying that the form could not be populated because table Customers could not be found (my fault for renaming it) - but I could not get rid of the error message by clicking in the OK button and OOo was effectively frozen. When I used Task Manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del) to close the error dialogue box, everything closed, as described above, including the Quick Starter .... plus, I lost all the test data I had entered into the two tables I had created. I would be glad to hear your comments. Kind regards, James Elliott --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
