Hi Harold
I finally got the list into excel. Thank you still don't know how I got the
wdb file unless I generated it while at my sister in laws and brought it
home on my flash drive.
I did just use open office to view a pps that someone sent to me. worked
great
Tom C
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From: "Harold Fuchs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <users@openoffice.org>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 5:14 PM
Subject: Re: [users] [moderated]Question
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.
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Harold Fuchs
London, England
Please reply *only* to users@openoffice.org
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