DBF files in 2008

[suburbatory]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: intel

Another downgrade in 2008:
What happened to support for DBF files? Office 04 did a great job of opening and saving them.

 

[Guest]

The US Treasury still publishes its CDFI files in DBF format expecting Excel compatibility: <http://www.cdfifund.gov/what_we_do/mapping_instructions.asp>

Too bad that Microsoft is abandoning community financial institutions by removing backward compatibility...

 

[Mike]

Yeah no joke, all GIS files are stored as DBF. Now I have to jump through hoops to get data out.

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Yeah no joke, all GIS files are stored as DBF. Now I have to jump through hoops to get data out.

Hi,

I sorta doubt this will work, but what happens if you change the .dbf
extension to .txt? Will Excel open it?

-Jim

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[Brian Doore]

So, Microsoft, will you add this function back in? DBF is a very, very common format. Otherwise, why not just run Calc?