[Hidden-tech] Basic data entry and analysis recommendations?

[Jim Ussailis]

I, too have a problem with Open Office. I put it on a Win98 machine, and 
it went in & changed the links to which program opens a file. It also 
made the WordPerfect suite unusable.

Jim Ussailis

jim at nationalwireless.com

PS Firefox is another wizzbang program. I found a cookies file, even 
tho I had shut off the gathering of cookies before I used it.




On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Ben Liyanage wrote:

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> I am warry of open office.  Most of the time it is fine.  I've definitely
> had it screw up on me, and make me lose all my data (yes, even the data I
> had previously saved successfully).  They are working on a good thing, but I
> do not think they are completely there yet.
> 
> Save and back up your data often.
> 
> 
> Ben Liyanage
> ben at smartankgroup.com
> 410.336.2464
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Bucciarelli
> Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 12:12 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] Basic data entry and analysis recommendations?
> 
>    ** Be a Good Dobee and help the group
>    ** Fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area.
>    ** Remember you must be counted to post .
> 
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 02:52:23PM -0400, Roger Kazakiewich wrote:
> 
> > My company is developing a manual for communities who want to conduct 
> > research to guide their after school program planning. We would like 
> > to provide communities with information about free or low-cost 
> > software they can use to do basic data entry and analysis. Does anyone 
> > have any recommendations?
> 
> I (finally!) downloaded OpenOffice 2.0 and it includes a database front end.
> 
> A quick run through worked without issue (create table + form, enter a
> record), and revealed the following features:
> 
>     - create table wizard
> 
>     - create form wizard
> 
>     - support for a wide range of backends (MySql, JDBC, flat text, etc)
> 
>     - Windows, Linux, OSX support
> 
>     - Free Software
>       
> m
> 
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