OpenOffice Base: Converting data and files from Access  Consider
switching to OpenOffice's Base, an open source alternative to
proprietary Microsoft Access. In this tip, an expert tells how
to convert Access files to Base and discusses some helpful hints
for working with Base.  OpenOffice's Base tool provides an open
source alternative to proprietary Microsoft Access. But if you
need to use both, it's nice to be able to move data back and
forth between applications.  In this tip, OpenOffice expert and
instructor Solveig Haugland explains how to convert Access files
to OpenOffice. She also describes a workaround for changing
field orders and discusses how to group items in OpenOffice.
How can you convert Microsoft Access files to OpenOffice Base?
Haugland: You can connect to an Access file in Choose File > New
> Database, choose to connect to an existing database, choose
Access as the format, and click Next.   Alternately, if you want
the data in Access to be in a true Base database, then follow
the instruct