Re: Converting Microsoft Works databases.... *shudder*

2006-11-04 Thread Ian Stephenson
I have Works 8.0 and you can SAVE AS to dBase IV format. Not sure for other versions. Regards, Ian "Michael B. Trausch" <"mike$#at^&nospam!%trauschus"> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with this. Someone I > know is trying to move away

Re: Converting Microsoft Works databases.... *shudder*

2006-11-03 Thread Paul McNett
Michael B. Trausch wrote: > GISDude wrote: >> Mike, >> I totally forgot that MS Works was out there. Haven't used that one in >> about 6 or 7 years. Honestly, your best bet is to convert to .csv or >> some delimited .txt file. Once that is done, all your rows/columns will >> be "nice and neat" . >>

Re: Converting Microsoft Works databases.... *shudder*

2006-11-03 Thread Michael B. Trausch
Larry Bates wrote: > > MS ships ODBC interface to xBase databases in all versions of Windows. > You don't need Access. Just create DSN to your exported dBase database > and MS Word, MS Excel, and any other ODBC aware product can read the > data. If the data size is large or if you want to move to

Re: Converting Microsoft Works databases.... *shudder*

2006-11-03 Thread Michael B. Trausch
GISDude wrote: > Mike, > I totally forgot that MS Works was out there. Haven't used that one in > about 6 or 7 years. Honestly, your best bet is to convert to .csv or > some delimited .txt file. Once that is done, all your rows/columns will > be "nice and neat" . > Once that is done, (and since you

Re: Converting Microsoft Works databases.... *shudder*

2006-11-03 Thread John Machin
GISDude wrote: > Mike, > I totally forgot that MS Works was out there. Haven't used that one in > about 6 or 7 years. Honestly, your best bet is to convert to .csv or > some delimited .txt file. Once that is done, all your rows/columns will > be "nice and neat" . "Nice and neat"? What is that sup

Re: Converting Microsoft Works databases.... *shudder*

2006-11-03 Thread Steve Holden
Larry Bates wrote: > Michael B. Trausch wrote: > >>I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with this. Someone I >>know is trying to move away from Microsoft Works, and I am trying to >>look into a solution that would convert their data in a lossless fashion >>to a more modern format. Th

Re: Converting Microsoft Works databases.... *shudder*

2006-11-03 Thread Larry Bates
Michael B. Trausch wrote: > I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with this. Someone I > know is trying to move away from Microsoft Works, and I am trying to > look into a solution that would convert their data in a lossless fashion > to a more modern format. The database has more than

Re: Converting Microsoft Works databases.... *shudder*

2006-11-03 Thread GISDude
Mike, I totally forgot that MS Works was out there. Haven't used that one in about 6 or 7 years. Honestly, your best bet is to convert to .csv or some delimited .txt file. Once that is done, all your rows/columns will be "nice and neat" . Once that is done, (and since your client doesn't have ACCES

Converting Microsoft Works databases.... *shudder*

2006-11-03 Thread Michael B. Trausch
I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with this. Someone I know is trying to move away from Microsoft Works, and I am trying to look into a solution that would convert their data in a lossless fashion to a more modern format. The database has more than 65K rows, so converting it to be