MS Works database to .csv or other

Anne Wilson cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Fri Nov 17 11:57:02 UTC 2006


On Friday 17 November 2006 11:08, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> On Friday 17 November 2006 10:58, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Friday 17 November 2006 10:53, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> > > Hi folks
> > >
> > > I've been sent some M$ Works databases *.wdb
> > >
> > > Anyone know how I can access them under Linux.  They both contain
> > > single tables, which I need to read, hopefully to create a CSV file
> >
> > I don't know the answer, Gary, and Works files are worse than Office
> > files, but I have sometimes had success with opening strange database
> > files in a spreadsheet, where they can usually be transformed into .csv
> > files.  HTH
> >
> > Anne
>
> Thanks for that Anne,
>
> Already tried with oocalc without success. I'm looking for others to try,
> but Google either gives a drought or a flood
>
It's a long time since I did this, but I think I was using gnumeric at the 
time - an excellent product :-)

Anne
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