Re: [SLUG] Open Office help

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Thu Mar 28 2002 - 22:12:31 EST


On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 05:19:45PM -0500, Seth Hollen wrote:

> What programs do you have available? I'm assuming a windows machine
> isn't available?
> Seth
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: slug@lists.nks.net [mailto:slug@lists.nks.net] On Behalf Of Bob
> Stia
> Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 1:07 PM
> To: SLUG List
> Subject: [SLUG] Open Office help
>
> Hi Sluggers,
>
> Maybe not really on topic, but can someone advise me on
> how to open a .BDB and/or a .wdb file? Someone handed
> me a file that I need to open and print that was created in an
> older version of Microsoft Office.
>

I don't know about .BDB, but I'm betting that .wdb is a Works database
(.mdb is Access). Works is like Office Lite, but that's where the
comparison ends. Works is not well supported by Microsoft, but a copy of
Works should be able to open the file.

Paul



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