Practical Free Alternatives to Commercial Software

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7. Using LibreOffice Base for Database Management

Steve Oualline¹  and Grace Oualline¹

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San Diego, California, USA

 

LibreOffice has the ability to take data from a Calc spreadsheet and use it to create a mass mailing (often called a mail merge). That works well if your list contains 1 to 1,000 people. But what if it grows larger? Say 100,000 recipients?

LibreOffice comes with a database comparable to the Microsoft Access “database”¹ and SQL Server, called LibreOffice Base. It does a good job until your list starts to reach the 1,000,000 mark. At that point, you’re going to need a ...