Bill……..I finally made it to a MicroSoft store. Again, no help at all. Would you believe they don’t have Access installed on any of their computers. And even then they don’t know how to work it anyway!
But…….I had a CSV file on my flash drive. I imported it and opened it up (on their computer) in Excel. All the data showed up in “fields” but they didn’t know how to make a database out of it.
As for the Works…..yes. I opened a half dozen Works files in the latest WORD program. No trouble there, at least.
The problem with saving as DBF is not all the data gets saved. It has huge dropouts of date here, there and everywhere.
Thanks for the “link” but they’re talking about saving as DBF and not CSV.
Do you, by any chance, run Excel and if you do, can I post to you a CSV that I converted and see if you can open it up and save it as a database.
I don’t know how Microsoft ever got so big with the poor service they have to their customers. All you ever get now is a foreign country with limited knowledge “specialists (?).
Hi Mark
Save your database in dBase IV then install Open Office
http://www.openoffice.org/download/ (It’s free) and you should find that the Open Office Database will open it without problems. (Libre Office is just an offshoot of Open Office so can also be used, but I find it more resource hungry than Open Office)
I occasionally use Open Office if there is something that just won’t work in Microsoft Office.
If you still have the MS Works Disc, you can install it in Windows 10 in compatibility mode, (Install rather than run) and it will work fine, so you don’t have to worry about losing anything.
If you want to send me a file just PM it and I will check it out for you, but I would try the dBase IV Open Office route first.
Bill
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