Any suggestions for a good freeware DBF to Excel and Excel to DBF converter

[patteo]

I would like to convert an DBF file to Excel and after making some modifications convert it back to a DBF format.

Can anyone suggest a freeware converter for this purpose.

Thanks

[rht341]

Hello,

Excel itself can open DBF files.  Try Open and change the file types drop down to dBase files (.dbf).  That's the way it is in Excel 2007, i believe it is available in earlier versions of Excel as well.

HTH.

[patteo]

Opps. Thanks.

I use File-ex

"File-Ex makes Windows file dialogs what they should be!"
http://www.cottonwoodsw.com/fx3summ.html

However, because it enhances the Windows File Open and Save Dialogs, certain options like what you mentioned gets hidden although I can temporarily disable File-Ex to show the original Microsoft Office File dialogs.

In any case, if you are using Windows XP, File-Ex is an indispensable software.

[lanux128]

try DBF Viewer Plus, which is a simple DBF viewer and allows some editing but not sure to what extent as i use Excel 2007 which as rht341 mentions is capable of opening DBF files.


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[Veign]

OpenOffice maybe