The stand-alone database in OpenOffice.org's latest update is powerful enough to be compared to Microsoft's popular Access database.

To open Design View, select Forms from the Database pane, followed by Create Form in Design View in the Tasks pane in the top middle of the window. You open in Design View, which is identical to ...

Warnings When you import a spreadsheet into an OpenOffice.org database, you lose any text styling, number formatting, macro scripts or charts that you previously used to enhance the data.