Editing High Schools

[AZJAZ]

What do I need to do to edit the high schools. Do you have to use Microsoft Access, and what if you dont have access, can they not be edited?

Also if you edit the competition quality of the schools, does that change the number of recruits that that school is likely to produce.

[Tim Plum]

you can use any dbase editing program. such as the open office program. And yes editing the school the number of recruits as well as quality will be affected.

[Colbster]

yeah... thanx for askin this question... I wanted to change my HS to its correct name... it's originally called Boone County HS in Centralia, Missouri... when in reality it's just Centralia HS in Centralia MO...

[AZJAZ]

Ok there are 14,040 schools in the game, now I just gotta figure out what all this means. Where is the manual

[Cooleyvol]

I can't get Open Office to open up the dat files. Anyone else have options as to what the problem is?

[AZJAZ]

When I clicked on the file it didnt show Access as being able to be used. I went to all programs and opened Access and then opened the file. That worked for me. If you have Access this is how you have to do it, otherwise I dont know.

[Roger Kaputnik]

Originally Posted by AZJAZ

When I clicked on the file it didnt show Access as being able to be used. I went to all programs and opened Access and then opened the file. That worked for me. If you have Access this is how you have to do it, otherwise I dont know.

Change the .DAT file to .MDB then edit away. Change it back to .DAT when you are done. That other way looks like it is working but it is not. You are missing some of the data that way.

[mh2365]

Originally Posted by Roger Kaputnik

Change the .DAT file to .MDB then edit away. Change it back to .DAT when you are done. That other way looks like it is working but it is not. You are missing some of the data that way.

Probably a stupid question but how do you change the extension of the file? From a .DAT to a .MDB

[Nukester]

Originally Posted by mh2365

Probably a stupid question but how do you change the extension of the file? From a .DAT to a .MDB

If you cant see the extension, you can try this:

- Open "My Computer"
- Double Click the C: drive
- At the top, go to "Tools\Folder Options"
- Click the "View" tab
- Scroll down just a little and look to see if you have a checkmark in "Hide extensions for known file types". If checked, uncheck it.
- now, go to that file (using explorer or My computer), right click on it, and rename the .DAT part to .MDB

That is one way to try in Win XP

[mh2365]

Thanks that did the trick ... I got a new computer for x-mas and I knew I could do it on my old computer.