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Bring Back DBF! The GIS Industry uses it!
Microsoft: "Historically Excel has supported many different data formats. We
have determined that a number of these older formats are seldom, if ever used. We are removing support for some file types to allow us to devote more of our efforts towards the file formats that are being used." DBF 4 (dBASE IV) is one of these "older formats" that was removed. I guess Microsoft did not realize that a whole industry uses these from time to time. There are some alternative programs that may be used, however, there is NO WAY possible to get those programs installed on my workstation. Its very simple. Just do a search for "GIS DBF Excel 2007" or something similar, and you will find calls for help. Many people use DBF and I would constantly use Excel to edit the DBF. There is no other program that can easily edit them on my workstation, and I know its the same with MANY others. Microsoft needs to bring back the DBF format in a Service Pack, if its possible. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...lic.excel.misc |
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Bring Back DBF! The GIS Industry uses it!
Access still understands it.
Jobhater wrote: Microsoft: "Historically Excel has supported many different data formats. We have determined that a number of these older formats are seldom, if ever used. We are removing support for some file types to allow us to devote more of our efforts towards the file formats that are being used." DBF 4 (dBASE IV) is one of these "older formats" that was removed. I guess Microsoft did not realize that a whole industry uses these from time to time. There are some alternative programs that may be used, however, there is NO WAY possible to get those programs installed on my workstation. Its very simple. Just do a search for "GIS DBF Excel 2007" or something similar, and you will find calls for help. Many people use DBF and I would constantly use Excel to edit the DBF. There is no other program that can easily edit them on my workstation, and I know its the same with MANY others. Microsoft needs to bring back the DBF format in a Service Pack, if its possible. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...lic.excel.misc |
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Bring Back DBF! The GIS Industry uses it!
Bob I wrote:
Access still understands it. So does OpenOffice.org Calc. Bill |
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Bring Back DBF! The GIS Industry uses it!
Can't use OpenOffice.org on my computer.
Access opens it, but it was SOOO much easier in Excel. Didn't have to do many steps, other than change the File Save As type. "Bill Sharpe" wrote: Bob I wrote: Access still understands it. So does OpenOffice.org Calc. Bill |
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Bring Back DBF! The GIS Industry uses it!
In article , ?B?Sm9iaGF0ZXI=?= wrote:
Can't use OpenOffice.org on my computer. Really ? Why not ? The only reason I can think of is 'our IT guys won't let me'. If that's the case and you need to use the data as you suggest, then you need to talk to them. :) Access opens it, but it was SOOO much easier in Excel. Didn't have to do many steps, other than change the File Save As type. "Bill Sharpe" wrote: Bob I wrote: Access still understands it. So does OpenOffice.org Calc. Bill |
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Bring Back DBF! The GIS Industry uses it!
YES THIS IS TRUE - and the solutions ESRI provides have one problem - they
don't work "Jobhater" wrote: Microsoft: "Historically Excel has supported many different data formats. We have determined that a number of these older formats are seldom, if ever used. We are removing support for some file types to allow us to devote more of our efforts towards the file formats that are being used." DBF 4 (dBASE IV) is one of these "older formats" that was removed. I guess Microsoft did not realize that a whole industry uses these from time to time. There are some alternative programs that may be used, however, there is NO WAY possible to get those programs installed on my workstation. Its very simple. Just do a search for "GIS DBF Excel 2007" or something similar, and you will find calls for help. Many people use DBF and I would constantly use Excel to edit the DBF. There is no other program that can easily edit them on my workstation, and I know its the same with MANY others. Microsoft needs to bring back the DBF format in a Service Pack, if its possible. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...lic.excel.misc |
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Hi there,
just wanted to let you know that I released a new version of the add- in that enables saving a DBF file in Excel 2007. New features: 1. Now you can add/insert new fields, create calculated fields in addition to adding new records or editing existing records in your native DBF file! 2. If you start with an Excel file the software now have enhanced capabilities to determine the field types (better than Microsoft's own in earlier Excel versions). 3. The add-in checks DBase field naming conventions and also identifies duplicate fields. All problem field names are visually identified with a cell comment! 4. If you start out with a brand new file and forget to save it, the add-in will ask before the conversion. 5. Large files are supported. I edited files over 500,000 records with no problem. See the post at http://thexlwiz.blogspot.com/. Gyula |
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