How do I open Microsoft Works DB files (.WDB)

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How do I open Microsoft Works DB files (.WDB)

I am no moving over to my AppleMac full time. No more Parallels/Windows. However, I cannot open my many .WDB files.

Is there anyway I can do this directly?

I did go back into Parallels, copied the .WDB data into Excel, saved and transferred these, but when I open them in Numbers back on the Mac, the columns have truncated the information.

Any help gratefully received.

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Jan 19, 2008 5:01 PM

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Answer 1

WWJD

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Jan 19, 2008 5:30 PM in response to naval-history

Can you export your .wdb files as .csv files then import into Numbers?

Regards,

Just created a Works DB and "Saved As" a csv file. Imported into Numbers successfully. Field names were not imported though.

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Answer 2

Jan 19, 2008 6:30 PM in response to naval-history

I don't understand what you mean by columns "truncating" information. Are you saying entire rows of data are missing? Or has the text in individual cells been partially deleted somehow?

I'm in the process of doing the same thing. First, I opened each spreadsheet on my PC and saved it as (SAVE AS) "Excel 97-2000[*.xls]. Then I copied all the spreadsheets with the .xls spreadsheets over to my Mac and easily opened them with Numbers.

The only problem I'm having is that some of my spreadsheets aren't opening because they're "too large." That's surprising because I thought Numbers spreadsheets could hold more rows than Microsoft Works spreadsheets.

However, I haven't yet taken the time to inspect my revised Numbers spreadsheets closely. After reading your comments, I guess I should take a closer look. 🙂

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Answer 3

Jan 20, 2008 3:42 AM in response to naval-history

Thanks for the feedback. I'll try some of these ideas/

"Truncated" - that part of the data that showed in the Works column, showed in the Numbers column, but not the rest of the data that was "hidden".

Gordon

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Answer 4

Jan 22, 2008 7:14 AM in response to naval-history

Thank you for your help.

Gordon

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