Alternatives to using forms in Writer
In OpenOffice.org version 1.x, forms were the only way to access a data source. In version 2.0 the Base component provides an alternative way of achieving this. There are a lot of similarities between forms in Base and Writer, but it may be that one is better for a particular task than the other. Base is appropriate only if the form accesses a data source; you would not use it for simple forms.
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OOo2.0 now includes Base—the database component. You can create databases and forms in Base.
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Most other OpenOffice.org components—Calc, Impress and Draw—also support forms in almost exactly the same way as Writer does.