[GLLUG] Database for a mailing list

[L Inbody]

If you are still trying to pull the information out of the access database,
the Ubuntu repositories have a program called MDB Viewer that should make it
possible to at least get it into Openoffice Calc, from calc you can do a
mail merge into writer.  I understand that calc is not a dedicated database
but you can also create one in base from a calc spreadsheet.

Here is a link explaining how to mail merge from calc to writer.
http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/word_processing/writer2_EN.html

Good Luck



2008/4/8 Athanasius Pelletier <athpell at gmail.com>:

> I am a new member of the Flint Linux User Group (is the website down or is
> it just me?).  I spoke to Clay at my first meeting about how I have been
> wrestling with Microsoft Access and Openoffice.org Base; I intensely dislike
> both programs.
>
> I am a Franciscan friar (a type of Catholic monk).  I have had the
> computers here at the friary on Ubuntu for over two years now but there are
> still some Microsoft programs that I must use.  Years ago somebody set up
> our mailing list on Access and it worked well but I really want to get away
> from that ( I accidentally encrypted the mailing list or something and I
> have no "access" to my data).  I retyped the list for Base but that is not
> working out at all.
>
> All we need is a database for around 700 names, addresses & info (for now
> - probably no more than 1,000) and a graphical way to
> access/add/modify/delete individual records and print labels (5160).  Clay
> said that it should be a fairly easy thing to accomplish but somebody needs
> to program the gui.
>
> Our community is a tax exempt corporation and I am able to give a tax
> letter to those who would be able to donate their skills to help me out with
> this.
>
> Br. Athanasius
>
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