Access 2013 - Dbase (.dbf) Table Import option

Congratulations on coming up with still another option.

If you'd like to share your solution, I would imagine a lot of the other posters in the discussion would be grateful for the assistance.

Perhaps an enterprising developer will see it as a source of revenue and develop and sell the tools you mention. I don't know what the size of that market would be, though. Enough to justify the effort I would hope.

I used ADODB Connection in VBA to select and manipulate .dbf files in msaccess 2013.

A li'l bit of coding but it worked for me!

So, someone must create a library/functions/sync library to make this easier.

Please read the entire thread to get a better understanding of "what happened".

Microsoft made the decision to drop support for linking to .dbf files in Access 2013. I am not privy to the discussions that preceded this decision. The only public comment from Microsoft that I am aware of has been to the effect that it was used by a relatively small number of users. If you happen to be one of those users who needed it, you are greatly inconvenienced.  If not, it's sort of a non-issue.

If you read the whole thread, you'll find at least a couple of work-arounds that are perfectly viable, if not convenient.

I suggest that everyone who feels this deprecation is a serious problem should direct your complaints directly to Microsoft. (And no, I'll leave it to you to find a contact point. ) Perhaps hearing from a large number disaffected users will move them.

I really need the option to import and link .dbf files to Access. Why does this not work anymore? Is it so difficult? Does it hurt? What happened? This is essential for some businesses.