When you use the Tools –>  Mail Merge Wizard in OpenOffice, it is quite limiting in that you are restricted to ending up with an address block. The way to insert other fields is not as obvious.

I have put together the tutorial below to guide you through my way of tackling a requirement of inserting [...]

Yesterday I wrote a brief post on links to visit for converting your Microsoft Access Database to an OpenOffice Base database. This only works for Windows-based installations.

For those using database formats such as mySQL, Oracle, etc, you should visit MDB Tools.

For some, the best [...]

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 [...]