ODBC Driver for MySQL, or you can click Browse, double-click the data source you need, and then click Next.

You can either type the name of your data source into the field, e.g.

Specify the name of the data source you want to connect to.

In the Database Wizard dialog box, click Connect to an existing database, select ODBC from the drop-down list, and click Next.

Start OpenOffice or LibreOffice, click Database to open the Database Wizard.Īlternatively, you can launch the Database Wizard from OpenOffice or LibreOffice Calc, Writer or any other tool by choosing File > New > Database.

To connect to an ODBC data source from OpenOffice or LibreOffice using our driver for MySQL, perform the steps below:

To get rid of the error message, set up the 32-bit version of the driver. Note that the Windows version of OpenOffice is 32-bit, and you may get the error “The specified DSN contains an architecture mismatch between the Driver and Application” when trying to access a data source through a 64-bit ODBC driver. You can access MySQL data from Open Office Base or LibreOffice Base - desktop database management systems. The article describes how to use Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice to access ODBC data sources using the respective driver. Connecting to MySQL from OpenOffice and LibreOffice using ODBC Driver for MySQL

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