On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Therese Trudeau <mswotr at hotmail.com> wrote: > Ah HA! That might be the problem, I'm using the JDBC driver and I don't have the > ODBC driver installed. Do you know where i could download the ODBC driver? yum search odbc What you're looking for is the unixODBC package. In CentOS it includes an ODBC driver for MySQL as well. > Or, is the ODBC driver the same as the sql-connector-java-5.0.8 driver? That one > I do have; I set up OpenOffice to point to that one too as I did for the JDBC Driver. No, anything with "java" in the name is JDBC, not ODBC. Google is your friend as well: http://www.google.ca/search?q=openoffice+odbc+linux The first one is a tutorial on how to connect OOo to MySQL, quite old though. The second one is an article in Linux.com with some information on JDBC vs. ODBC. In general, however, I agree with Matt that your problem is OOo related and asking on an OOo list would be more fruitful. Filipe