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1. How To Import Dbf File Into Excel
2. How To Import A Dbf File Into Excel

The most straight forward way to do FoxPro to PostgreSQL migration is to export DBF files (FoxPro tables) into Comma Separate Values format and then import it to PostgreSQL. DBF files can be converted into CSV format using free tool dbf2csv available at SourceForge.net. The second part of the migration process can be done via free pgloader tool. Import from XLS / XLSX (Excel) to DBF Base This dialog window imports data from an Excel file. With 'Import data into current (opened) database file' option, the DBFView will insert records from xls / xlsx file you selected into current dbf file. In this case the number of fields and field types should be the same as opened dbase file.

DBF Converter & DBF Viewer is a compact but powerful tool for viewing, editing, and printing DBF-format databases - screen shot.
It supports dBase, Clipper, FoxPro, Visual FoxPro and other DBF file formats. In contrast to many analogues, DBF Converter & DBF Viewer is completely a Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP/Vista program. The user friendly graphic makes working with databases simple and hassle free.
Most important parts of DBF Converter & DBF Viewer code are written in Assembler, therefore the basic operations performs fast and the .exe file is very small (only 410Kb!).
DBF Converter & DBF Viewer uses its own database access tools and does not require external drivers for connection to databases (such as ODBC or BDE) or additional libraries (.OCX, .DLL).
The program allows you to add, delete, recall, sort, zap, pack records, view and edit files in DOS or Windows character sets, get detailed database information,export dbf files to txt/html format, convert csv and xls / xlsx to dbf format, import/export from MS Excel (including MS Excel 2007!), and search in a file. DBF Converter & DBF Viewer comes with Installer/Uninstaller, documentation in HTML format, and sample files.

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Convert DBF to Excel 2007. Convert dbf to xlsx.

1. He is trying to use Foxpro exclusively to convert an excel file to DBF. In the past, they have used Access as an interim but are trying to get away from that for a few reasons. If my memory is correct, it is difficult to convert an excel file to DBF without a program.
2. Excel XLS and XLSX To DBF Converter Software is a simple to use tool that enables you to convert Microsoft Excel spreadsheets into DBF files. The application displays a user-friendly interface.
3. Our plan is to generate an excel file and use FOXPRO simply to convert the excel file to a DBF. We can use ACCESSDB to save it as a DBF but hard to keep the table properties same as the original dbf we are used to sending to fiscals. If the DBF file already exists, use APPEND FROM to import Excel data into it: SELECT MyDDF APPEND FROM.

Saves the dbf database records a Microsoft Excel File xls / xlsx. If 'Export with field names' is checked, the the output xls / xlsx file will contain field names. You can also open the output file automatically in MS Excel after the converting is done by selecting 'Open database in MS Excel after exporting' checkbox.

If your file has more than 65.536 lines it will be split to several sheets (65.536 lines on each sheet).

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Mike Koch - System Administrator
I found DBFView after a lengthy search on the net. I was looking for an interface that could provide a view, update, and edit interface for a large database that could reside on an internet drive (like X-Drive), where I and co-workers out of state could access and quickly update our numbers (basically job/data tracking for telecommuters). The company does photo-editing (school, corporate, restorative work) utilizing high-speed internet, waveform compression, and some good computer artists. Maybe 5000 negative scans per year.
Anyway, nobody wanted to install full-blown database programs, sql server or the like, the company is not that big, nor is the data itself considered critical. So for this type of user, your interface provides clean, quick, simple, no syntax required, put the data in and go. Others I looked at tried to do the same but usually forget the 'people element', and I don't have time to learn sql syntax and help them complete their programs. (Incidently, I used to have a lot of fun programming DBase II and III, then I saw Access and cried).

Helen Mitten - Software Manager
We were interested because our users needed something quick and easy to view dbf files and we did not want to use FoxPro. We had another utility that works on Windows 95 and NT but would not work on Windows 98. We tried using Excel but it would only read up to 65,536 records and some of the files they look at are larger than that. I had looked at another dbfviewer but it did not have all the functionality that yours has.

Ulrich Pfleghard - Software Manager
We have installed Access 2000, and the export data from access to dBase destructs actually all file structures (thank you, guys from MS!) of the DBase files in a manner that dBase doesn't recognize them as dBase files... I have to support an old Clipper/dBase based program. I was looking for a documentation tool for dBase because we still use a Clipper compiled programm that uses dBase files. Then I found Your program and thought i could see the structures of the files: I can! Hey fine! I also can see the contents of the files even if the Access derived files have a mistake in the second byte (at least) of the exported files. And I can modify the contents of the fields. Even better!

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A while back, someone handed over some scheduling data in a somewhat clunky old application in desperate need of modernization. I looked under the hood and figured out that this thing uses a FoxPro database! Microsoft discontinued development of Visual FoxPro way back in 2007, and I hadn’t seen a working FoxPro database since the late 1990s…so I knew it might be tricky to get the data out.

TL;DR: I fired up Microsoft Access to see if I could link to the external data. This was harder than I expected because Windows 10 and Access 2016 no longer ship with a Visual FoxPro ODBC driver. Once I found one, I could easily link to all of the tables—except for the ones that included variable-width memo fields. I could use an OLE DB provider to get to tables with memo fields, but only via Excel or programmatically. Access apparently can’t create a linked table via OLE DB.

As I mentioned above, if you’re on Windows 10 and Microsoft Access 2016, chances are good that your machine doesn’t have an ODBC driver for Visual FoxPro installed like earlier versions. You can find a page on Microsoft’s website that used to have a link to download of the driver, but it’s been removed since they no longer support it. Thankfully, it seems you can reliably find a link to the old Microsoft VFPODBC.msi file at the Visual FoxPro Wiki.

I know Microsoft Access isn’t an ideal tool for creating applications, but I sure saw and wrote plenty of them back in the day. It’s still a great tool to quickly test stuff like this.

So I clicked over to the External Data ribbon, clicked New Data Source→From Other Sources→ODBC Database and configured a connection to the FoxPro data I wanted to get into. I easily pulled up a table listing and decided to select all the tables to start off. Several prompts came up to indicate a unique identifier. Being that my attention span for message and dialog boxes has shrunk to zero, I answered the first two or three, and then just clicked Cancel through the rest. Everything seemed all too easy!

Problems with Tables Having Memo Fields :-/

Now that I knew this was indeed a FoxPro database and that I could access its contents, I set my focus on analyzing the table structure to find the specific data I needed. At this point I hit a snag…

How To Import Dbf File Into Excel

After much googling and digging, I concluded that the cause of these error messages was that the Microsoft Visual FoxPro ODBC driver was choking on the memo fields.

. Every other table I linked to via ODBC worked perfectly, but any table that included one or more memo fields bombed.

If you look at the file structure of a FoxPro database, you see that each data table has a corresponding .DBF and .CDX file. Using a text editor, I could infer that the .DBF file contains headings and data for the table’s fixed-width fields, and that the .CDX file contains indexes. Any table that included a variable-width memo field had a corresponding .FPT file containing that data.

So if you want a shortcut to determine whether ODBC will get you into all of your FoxPro tables, look for .FPT files. If you see them, you will have problems. If you don’t have problems, I hope you’ll tell me about it! The best solution I’ve found is only a workaround. I’d love to know if you’ve found a method to link directly.

How To Import A Dbf File Into Excel

In my quest to crack this open, I found others recommend OLE DB as a way to overcome the memo field problem. While an OLE DB driver for Visual FoxPro no longer ships with Windows 10 or Access 2016 of course, I easily tracked one down on Microsoft’s website here.

After I installed it, my next problem was how to use it in Microsoft Access to create a linked table. After again scouring the Internet, I found no way to do this. Access apparently only allows you to create linked tables to Access, SQL Server, and ODBC databases. I could however import the data into Excel, but that too was tricky.

Importing Visual FoxPro Data Into Excel via OLE DB

Getting to external data via OLE DB is pretty intuitive in Excel…up until you go to create the connection string. (Click Data→Get Data→From Other Sources→From OLE DB.) After I clicked Build, selected the Visual FoxPro driver, and clicked Next, Excel crashed…every single time…

Thankfully there’s more than one way to build an OLE DB connection string. For the most part, it’s pretty straightforward (so long as you don’t need any special options):

Once I had my connection string, I pasted it into Excel and it connected to every table in the FoxPro database. I could import all of the data I needed with no problems.

From here I could link to the data in Excel to use it in Access. I could also use some VBA code to directly import the data into Access. These are not simple ways to get to my data, but at least I know I can get it out when the time comes.