It surely doesn't make your life easier, but you can still (in Access 2007,
that is) import and export dbf files. You may simply have to use Access as a
midway stop in your trek between Excel and dbf files.

It's a foregone conclusion that Microsoft will put little or no work into
adding dbf capabilities to Excel. dbf files are used less and less
frequently as time goes by and there isn't much return on investment in
prolonging support for file formats whose use is dwindling.

"Laura" wrote:

Please bring back .dbf extension in Excel. This is such an important
extension in the work that we do and makes my work life much easier.

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