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: > ** 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 . > > 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----- > From: hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net > [mailto:hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net] On Behalf Of Mark > Bucciarelli > Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 12:12 PM > To: Roger Kazakiewich > Cc: hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members > > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members >