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| Thread ID: 77361 | 2007-03-07 02:16:00 | Database convertion | Thomas01 (317) | Press F1 |
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| 530816 | 2007-03-07 02:16:00 | I have just written an email to a friend and enclosed a database for her. This like all my work is in MSWorks format. I know she used to have an old copy of MSWorks just to be able to read anything I did, but having gone through several computer changes since, she may no longer have access to it. Can the database be read in office or anything else? Tom |
Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 530817 | 2007-03-07 03:11:00 | could this work? spreadsheets.about.com |
teszeract (8723) | ||
| 530818 | 2007-03-07 06:13:00 | could this work? spreadsheets.about.com Well I could certainly convert my database to a spreadsheet and then the program would work. But it would defeat the object of having it written as a database. The link looks particularly interesting and educational. Thanks for that, but I am still looking. Tom |
Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 530819 | 2007-03-07 07:25:00 | What about OpenOffice.org - that may be able to read a MSWorks database | TeejayR (4271) | ||
| 530820 | 2007-03-07 09:29:00 | The answer is partially. You can move the data between different programs using a common interchange format. The most universal way to do this is to export a CSV (comma separated values) file for each table and send them like that. Another option would be to use dBase, although it sounds like the Microsoft products have very poor support for it. You will not be able to transfer your forms between applications. Even MS Access can't do that, let alone other vendors' software. You can still, however, transfer the data and include instructions on appropriate constraints. May I suggest getting OpenOffice.org (http://www.openoffice.org) and using its database module? The software is freely available to anybody else who might want to use your databases. It is also miles ahead of MS Works 'database' (the classification of Works database as a database is questionable in the first place). I haven't used it much myself as I prefer to use proper DBMS systems but it seems quite capable. |
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| 530821 | 2007-03-07 12:16:00 | support.microsoft.com | Rob99 (151) | ||
| 530822 | 2007-03-07 12:58:00 | I have just written an email to a friend and enclosed a database for her. This like all my work is in MSWorks format. I know she used to have an old copy of MSWorks just to be able to read anything I did, but having gone through several computer changes since, she may no longer have access to it. Can the database be read in office or anything else? Tom Unless someone needs to alter the database there are only two ways to send the data; html or pdf. I can not comprehend how anyone would want to use Works in the first place. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 530823 | 2007-03-07 15:52:00 | May I suggest getting OpenOffice.org (http://www.openoffice.org) and using its database module? The software is freely available to anybody else who might want to use your databases. It is also miles ahead of MS Works 'database' (the classification of Works database as a database is questionable in the first place). I haven't used it much myself as I prefer to use proper DBMS systems but it seems quite capable. ...and OpenOffice 2.0 allows directly exporting as a pdf file anyway....without the need for Adobe. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 530824 | 2007-03-07 21:43:00 | Gosh everybody jumping in to help. Thanks to all. Now my observations. Well first I haven't actually done anything yet as I still do not know if the recipient is OK with what she has got. Open Office comments I found interesting because I tried it ages ago and found like OFFICE it is terribly complicated and over powerful. Plus it had no database, but when I tried it, suggested one to use. Which again I found ridiculously over complicated. It's amazing the way people do not like MSWorks which I still find far superior to OFFICE for most people. OK its not the power of OFFICE but who cares! Not many people know that MSWorks spreadsheet can handle some things OFFICE cannot. OK so OFFICE handles a huge amount MSWorks doesn't. I can accept that. For articles for publication I use WORD - it's the accepted thing. As I have mentioned before I have fun with salesmen in computer shops when I say I can write a database for addresses, occupations etc etc in under a minute with MSWorks. They look at me as though I am daft until I prove I can do it, then as one said it would take him as many weeks as I took minutes to write the same in OFFICE. OK an exaggeration, but we both chuckled. MSWorks database is FLAT FILE. Which means that it suits most requirement but is useless when more than one existing database is required to be read in conjunction with another. But my daily log file contains 6600 entries and in micro seconds finds any information I want. Terrific. I remember years ago I visited a firm who had been sold OFFICE and had got nowhere - I dumped OFFICE for them - wrote a simple flat file database and got a call several weeks later - they were delighted with the results they were getting and the way the staff were using the computer all the time although none of them could be classed as computer literate. This is the advantage of MSWorks - it's easy, works well and does what is required fast and reliably. Very little tuition is required. I think I have got off the subject (again!) Tom |
Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 530825 | 2007-03-07 22:07:00 | Gosh everybody jumping in to help. Thanks to all. Now my observations. Well first I haven't actually done anything yet as I still do not know if the recipient is OK with what she has got. Open Office comments I found interesting because I tried it ages ago and found like OFFICE it is terribly complicated and over powerful. Plus it had no database, but when I tried it, suggested one to use. Which again I found ridiculously over complicated. It's amazing the way people do not like MSWorks which I still find far superior to OFFICE for most people. OK its not the power of OFFICE but who cares! Not many people know that MSWorks spreadsheet can handle some things OFFICE cannot. OK so OFFICE handles a huge amount MSWorks doesn't. I can accept that. For articles for publication I use WORD - it's the accepted thing. As I have mentioned before I have fun with salesmen in computer shops when I say I can write a database for addresses, occupations etc etc in under a minute with MSWorks. They look at me as though I am daft until I prove I can do it, then as one said it would take him as many weeks as I took minutes to write the same in OFFICE. OK an exaggeration, but we both chuckled. MSWorks database is FLAT FILE. Which means that it suits most requirement but is useless when more than one existing database is required to be read in conjunction with another. But my daily log file contains 6600 entries and in micro seconds finds any information I want. Terrific. I remember years ago I visited a firm who had been sold OFFICE and had got nowhere - I dumped OFFICE for them - wrote a simple flat file database and got a call several weeks later - they were delighted with the results they were getting and the way the staff were using the computer all the time although none of them could be classed as computer literate. This is the advantage of MSWorks - it's easy, works well and does what is required fast and reliably. Very little tuition is required. I think I have got off the subject (again!) Tom Here, here, whatever works for you. |
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