On 15/04/2008 19:35, tom cochran wrote:
Hi I have a list of books read over the years that somehow has a wdb extention
TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE I have never had Works. Will Openoffice allow this to be imported into something like excel
The information has about 4 columns of varing width (author, title, date , brief description.
I have downloaded your program and hope it will solve some of my various
problems
Tom Cochran
Hmmm. If you've really never used Works, how did you create the .wdb
files you have? If you have Works, you can use it to save the data in
dBase format and then use OpenOffice Base to access it. Below is a quote
from Brian Barker (hope you don't mind, Brian) on the same subject:
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Go back to your copy of Microsoft Works, open the databases in that, and
save copies in dBase (*.dbf) format. (Works will do this.) Then create
a new Base database, in the first panel of the Database Wizard select
"Connect to an existing database", scroll down to dBASE, and browse to
your database copy. Your new Base database will be able to access the
data from your old database.
Alternatively, save the data from Works as "Text & Commas (*.csv)". You
can then either connect to this document from Base or else open the .csv
file in Calc and then copy and paste the data into the Tables panel of
Base, creating a new table in the process.
=== end quote ===
If the files really were not created by Works then either just download
and install OpenOffice (it's free) and try, or upload one of the files
to a web site somewhere and provide us with a link. If you don't have a
convenient web site you can use <www.mytempdir.com>. It's free. No, I am
not affiliated with it in any way.
--
Harold Fuchs
London, England
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