OpenOffice Database Conversion – MDB

Written By: stephanie on August 2, 2007 No Comment

For those that have Microsoft Access databases which they wish to use in OpenOffice, this is now supported. There is a wiki page that will give you more information here, however the most often asked question is answered as per the following:

Can I use Microsoft Access databases (.mdb) in Base?

On Windows: yes. You cannot open them directly via File|Open, but you can access the data therein. For this, you need the Microsoft Data Access Components, which are available from Microsoft for free. (In Windows XP, they”re already included, so you need them for older Windows versions only.)

For more information on OpenOffice Base, visit the Base FAQs and the main page on OpenOffice Base