Can i open mdb file in openoffice

From the openoffice. This package contains the database component for OpenOffice. You can extend the functionality of OpenOffice. Hi Salahuddin Many thanks. Your instructions were easily understood and has helped me tremendously.

I will also install the additional options. Again many thanks. Regards Gunjo fellow Blogger. Then use javascript to parse it. I am not clear why you are tying to use javascript instead of bash or python script.

Could you please explain? I really need to recover these file,they represent several hundred hours of transcription from other sources. Thanks for your assistance flipavon.

Have you done a search on the forum before? Corrupted base files are an issue that is reported quite often. The "ASCII filter" options are a sign that OOo doesn't recognize the file's content as the format that should be found inside according to the file's extension.

For OOo native formats this means that the zip archive. Then you use the Access-toolkit for queries, forms and reports to work with the linked database linked rather than imported. In this case we use the Microsoft drivers to connect with Microsoft's Jet database engine and now we can use our Base tools for queries, forms and reports to work with the linked database.

Please, edit this topic's initial post and add "[Solved]" to the subject line if your problem has been solved. Ubuntu I can't quite figure it out. I don't think I want to link tables or anything like that, I just want to create a new table that mirrors the existing table including its data. So when you edit the table in either Base or Access you actually edit the very same table contained in the mdb file. Read the sources provided by r4zoli. You need some freely availlable driver from Microsoft to read tables from mdb files.

Sometimes, you are not able to open and view the contents of the. There are chances that your MDB files have been corrupted. This tool is efficient enough to open MDB files without Access and also it repairs the corruptions in the files at the same time.

Using it, one can easily recover the corrupt. I hope you got all the info which you were trying to find. Also, you can use Access repair software for corrupted MDB files. Hope this helps. View all posts by Mahima Gupta.