On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 20:52 -0500, Jim Cornette wrote: > kevin.kempter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Anyone know of a reliable way to convert m$ access data to openoffice base? > > > > I tried and did not have positive results with the process. > Openoffice.org MSwindows and Openoffice.org for Linux had different > database structures when I tried. The tables converted somewhat on the > windows side but did not function on the Linux side. > > They might have some solutions for compatibility from OS to OS. I tried > when the openoffice.org-base package first premiered. > > The most success that I had was when exporting the tables to excel and > then exporting the spreadsheets to openoffice.org format. I stopped the > attempt since it seemed quite a bit more of a challenge than expected. > > If anyone has met with success when trying to convert MSaccess DBs over > to Openoffice.org-base (windows-bound) and then over to Linux, I am > interested in this possibility also. > ---- you might want to check out... http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net/ Craig
