-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-09-18 at 15:55 +0100, G T Smith wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
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I need a manual for dummies... O:-)
I do have the OpenOffice.org for Dummies book ... bloody useless on this aspect ....
Too bad :-( I have just found a tutorial, in flash form, in "http://documentation.openoffice.org/tutorials/". I just saw the first two. By the way... Is there a way to watch swf files outside of firefox?
The complex one would be another linked table:
index to book index to authors ---------------+------------------- 1 10 1 11 1 23 1 47
Tend to use the latter kind of "link table" a lot... I have come across a number of references to fields holding array values, but at the moment MySQL does not support this. Postgresql apparently does. Suspect this may also be a bit beyond the ordinary user...
Array values! Now, that would be nice! :-)~ (slurp)
I think of OOo as a replacement for M. Office, and this is a thing Access could do quite easily. I don't like Access (I have been bitten by it), but I can't deny the user and design interface are good, for me at least.
Define easy :-| with Access one spent as much time dealing with effects of the last patch as dealing with getting Access do something one expected.. I have also used used Lotus Approach which although radically different from Access was highly usable. Lotus Script was/is very tidy which is more than I can say for the Access Basic Scripting... Main complaint I have with OpenOffice is the scripting documentation is very poor....
Easy to design a simple database. Point and click. When you get to want some complexity, then it becomes very dificult. An interface similar to what OOo base or rekall do, or tries to sometimes. I don't mean easy as in working correctly, though. I recogn M$ are good at designing interfaces, but that doesn't mean that later they work as intended or that there aren't gotchas. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFG8CNctTMYHG2NR9URArg7AJ9haDPsS2u+OQh50/06XEzn/TF0PgCgiydA cjXsXio2cV1UdnIZW/SfUsM= =eov7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org