Access 2013 - Dbase (.dbf) Table Import option

Anonymous
2013-02-03T16:16:55+00:00

I need to be able to import read/write Dbase dbf tables - yes they are still around so why has the standard option that was in Access 2010 gone?

I have seen mention of ISAM, which is gobbledegook to me. So please a simple answer - what do I need to install or change and how do I do it?

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-09-22T18:44:16+00:00

    I'm just going to throw in my 2 cents... I heavily relied on LINKING to a .dbf so I could change values in the table while sharing it as a piece of the SHP file format, which is a common GIS format.  VBA was an incredible tool for me to code data validation pieces and directly update the linked table so it could still function within an GIS environment.  I'll probably have to move out of using Access altogether, because the GIS element of our underlying data is far too important for us.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-08-25T14:55:55+00:00

    If you open the DBF file in Excel, save as an Excel Workbook, that works, or at least it worked for me. Hope this helps.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-08-14T18:55:14+00:00

    I just like to join the community and say that DBF feature was important to me too.

    I don't know my options after I sat on 365 office. But anyway I find the whole package is very comfortable, except that single issue.

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-08-06T17:27:13+00:00

    Interesting idea @Daffodilsr, but an unsupported configuration.  Installing multiple versions of Access has not been a good practice since Office 2007.

    The intent of the installer is to facilitate transfer of data between non-Microsoft Office applications and office files.  Something I don't think you can do with the Access runtime installed.   It is not for installing over Access 2013 to bring back depreciated features like support for DBF files.

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