office 2007

by **BadWolf** on Wed Dec 06, 2006 12:36 am

there's no save as dbf in excel 07... stupid EA... ups Microsoft,,,
does anyone know how to convert xlsx files to dbf?

by **Elbeen** on Wed Dec 06, 2006 7:52 am

it is better to use db commander as your dbf editor... here's the link http://nba-live.com/download/pafiledb.p ... ad&id=1069

by **BadWolf** on Wed Dec 06, 2006 5:21 pm

i really don't understand what are the advantages of db commander and other similar tools
everything is much easier in excel

by **bigh0rt** on Wed Dec 06, 2006 5:35 pm

In my experiences, using Excel has occasionally corrupted the .dbf files, whereas I've never experienced it using DB Commander.

by **Elbeen** on Wed Dec 06, 2006 7:34 pm

bigh0rt wrote:In my experiences, using Excel has occasionally corrupted the .dbf files, whereas I've never experienced it using DB Commander.

that is true

YouTube · by **JaoSming** on Wed Dec 06, 2006 11:29 pm

Im not saying it doesnt, but I've never had excel corrupt one on me. But now I use Open Office, a free alternative to excel, word, ect. And again (knock on wood) I have yet to encounter an issue.

by **BadWolf** on Thu Dec 07, 2006 12:35 am

well, there's an idea, tx
so open office saves in dbf?

YouTube · by **JaoSming** on Thu Dec 07, 2006 1:04 am

yea it can export to dbf

Bluesky · by **Andrew** on Thu Dec 07, 2006 8:52 am

BigBadWolf wrote:i really don't understand what are the advantages of db commander and other similar tools
everything is much easier in excel

The main advantage is that it's much easier to corrupt the dbf files by saving them incorrectly when you're using Excel. DB Commander opens dbf files and saves them automatically as you go, in the correct format.

A less significant, but nevertheless handy feature is the ability to open up two dbf files side by side in DB Commander. Very useful when you're editing players.dbf or teams.dbf and need to look up a value in another file, such as nicknames.dbf, birthtown.dbf, plays.dbf etc.

by **BadWolf** on Thu Dec 07, 2006 9:16 am

i never had a file corrupted by excel
the other thing work well or better in excel
open office... hm, i miss some simple features - sorting is a bit annoying and such things, but it works just fine

by **Donatello** on Thu Dec 07, 2006 9:52 am

JaoSming wrote:Im not saying it doesnt, but I've never had excel corrupt one on me. But now I use Open Office, a free alternative to excel, word, ect. And again (knock on wood) I have yet to encounter an issue.

I second that. I've used open office for a couple years now, I love it.

by **mrMiyagi** on Sat Dec 09, 2006 3:31 am

Open office rocks and there's addons/macros you can get for a lot of missing features.

Bluesky · by **Andrew** on Sat Dec 09, 2006 12:42 pm

BigBadWolf wrote:i never had a file corrupted by excel
the other thing work well or better in excel
open office... hm, i miss some simple features - sorting is a bit annoying and such things, but it works just fine

Well, I'm only going by my experience. I personally prefer DB Commander but to each their own.

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