On Wednesday February 07 2007 3:35 pm, Lynne Merchant wrote:
> I need OpenOffice specifically for the database and presentation
> programs. Unfortunately these are the two that refuse to open
> Microsoft files. For the presentation one the error message said
> something about input/output. After changing the file association
> for database files, they opened in Writer as a couple of lines of
> elf talk.
>
> I checked the file associations. I uninstalled and reinstalled it,
> twice (including deleting all files and registry entries). I tried
> to open files from my hard drive and from my pen drive. Nothing
> doing. Uninstalled it again now.
>
> Clearly I don't have the technical knowledge to sort this out.
> Please can somebody help me out here?
>
> Lynne
While Impress will open PowerPoint files directly, Base (OOo's
database application) will not open Access files directly. You have
to establish a connection between OOo and the Access file. The
required connection is only available on computers running the
Windows operating system. Since I use Linux instead of Windows, I can
not really help you any further.
Dan
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