.mdb files and Office Vx

[Doug Mitchell]

I have been sent a number of ".mdb" files which appear to have been
created in Microsoft Access. They have word icons but Word only opens
them as rubish. I am given a screen requesting the form to open the
file. I have chosen text but it does not work. Is there a trick to
opening these files. I only a printable form of tthese files. I also
tried excel without success.

 

[J.E. McGimpsey]

I have been sent a number of ".mdb" files which appear to have been
created in Microsoft Access. They have word icons but Word only opens
them as rubish. I am given a screen requesting the form to open the
file. I have chosen text but it does not work. Is there a trick to
opening these files. I only a printable form of tthese files. I also
tried excel without success.

You can't open it successfully on a Mac. Couple of things to try:

1) See if your correspondent will export the data in a format that
XL will read. See

http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/excelx/using.aspx?pid=usingexce
lx&type=howto&article=/mac/library/how_to_articles/officex/xl_queryac
cessdata.xml


2) See this recent thread for how to connect to a Windows machine
using ODBC and Mac Excel:

http://google.com/groups?threadm=fb7bovcphh7jn32r84dt064o767pot0qpv%4
04ax.com