On Sunday 24 December 2006 23:10, + Karl Krelove wrote: > I've seen lots of traffic about connecting to Access data files with > OpenOffice Base. I don't necessarily want to connect to an .MDB, but I > would like to import a large amount of data from an Access db into OO-Base > and then use the data in native OO-2.1 format. In fact to get the data into > Access I actually import it from a database at work that runs under > Pentamation (I don't know what format is native to that system). I can get > the data from the source in either delimited text or Excel format, so I > could import the same data directly from either of those without even going > through Access, but I can't find a way to import the data into a Base > table. > > > > The point of doing this is to be able to use the same data file across > machines using both Windows XP and Linux. I know I can connect directly to > the .MDB on the Windows side, but I want to use the same data in Linux OO. > It seems like there ought to be a direct way to import data into a new > table in Base, but I can't find it (it ends up as spreadsheet data or a > word processing table whenever I try).
As you are not subscribed you may not have seen that: On Thursday 28 December 2006 03:11, Adrian Try wrote: > > Solveig Haugland has written an article called "Bringing data into > OpenOffice 2.0's database" that you might find useful. You can find the > article at: > > http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid39_gci1222186,00.html Please reply to [email protected] only. -- CPH : openoffice.org contributor Maybe your question has been answered already? http://user-faq.openoffice.org/#FAQ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
