WINE and MS Office

[David Fletcher]

On Fri, 2014-08-15 at 08:56 +1000, Peter Goggin wrote:

> I have four laptops running windows XP. I cannot afford to upgrade to
> windows 8.  I am converting them to Ubuntu one at a time. The first
> one has an Access data base which I need. The effort of converting to
> LibreBase  in effect means starting from scratch and recreating the
> whole data base, including forms, reports etc. As far as I can find
> there is no easy way of getting the Access data base into a Linux
> database. I thought it would be simpler to run Wine and keep the
> database as is.  Unfortunately I was unable to get either of my copies
> of MS Office to install.
> I have tried OpenOffice as well as LibreOffice but neither allows me
> to convert the data base.  I have tried the site you suggested, but
> each time I try a search I get the response search is not available
> try later.

Is this any use as a starting point?

http://mazamascience.com/WorkingWithData/?p=168

I know nothing about databases so please don't ask but found it by
fiddling with Google a little via here:-

http://www.guyrutenberg.com/2012/07/16/sql-dump-for-ms-access-databases-mdb-files-on-linux/