Hi Christopher,
I'm only replying to one point as Sigrid answered most
below. When I lost the spell checker in OE, I switched to
Mozilla and have not regretted it.
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Sigrid Kronenberger wrote:
>Hi Christopher,
>
>"Christopher Harding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
>
>>Hi.
>>
>>I'm a brand new (potential) user and cannot open MS
Office 2000
>>database files (*.mdb). Is this possible?
>>
>
>Yes, this should be possible. But you have to use the
ODBC-driver, to
>have access to the *.mdb-file. Sorry, I can't give you
more advice,
>because I don't use the base module.
>
>>At first I had the *.mdb file password protected (so that
it couldn't
>>be opened without the password). I removed this
protectio and still
>>couldn't open it in Open Office (OO)!
>>
>>Even if I can open this file, it is important for me to
stop others
>>from opening it via password. Can I set this up in OO?
>>
>>On another more general matter - I currently synchronise
my MS Office
>>files with my PDA (d'bases, s'sheets & docs). Will I be
able to save
>>all files in MS Office format so that this
synchronisation remains as
>>is?
>
>
>Yes, when you're starting OOo for the first time, OOo asks
you, which
>format should be the default format. When you missed this
option, you
>can change this later via Tools > Options > OOo-module
(like Writer,
>Calc...)
>
>>If the answer is no to any of the above, I shall have to
uninstall OO,
>>which would be a shame as I'm pretty fed up with MS and
it's often
>>buggy behaviour!
>>
>>Thanks for your help (hopefully)
>
>
>HTH
>
>Sigrid
>
>
>>PS I unistalled MS Office and've just discovered the
Spell Checker in
>>this Outlook Express is now not functional!! Ho Hum!
>
>
>Yes, because MS OE uses the spellchecker of Word. But this
isn't the
>fault of OOo. :)
>
>
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