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.dba that I can't open
Very new user to Access
Trying to pring labels from a .dba someone sent me. I can't even get it open. Will Access open it? Print labels from it? I'm much more familiar with the simple process of creating a database in Word and doing my mailings that way. Thanks, Denise |
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On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 11:23:09 -0800, Denise
wrote: Very new user to Access Trying to pring labels from a .dba someone sent me. I can't even get it open. Will Access open it? Print labels from it? I'm much more familiar with the simple process of creating a database in Word and doing my mailings that way. An Access database uses the .mdb (or its variants) format - not .dba. I'm not even sure what database software uses .dba files. You might try using File... Get External Data... Import and select something appropriate for "files of type". Microsoft Word is an excellent word-processing program; it's not a database. Access is an excellent database development environment; but it's not a word processor. Expecting Access to behave like Word will get you all sorts of headaches! John W. Vinson[MVP] |
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John Vinson wrote:
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 11:23:09 -0800, Denise wrote: Very new user to Access Trying to pring labels from a .dba someone sent me. I can't even get it open. Will Access open it? Print labels from it? I'm much more familiar with the simple process of creating a database in Word and doing my mailings that way. An Access database uses the .mdb (or its variants) format - not .dba. I'm not even sure what database software uses .dba files. You might try using File... Get External Data... Import and select something appropriate for "files of type". Microsoft Word is an excellent word-processing program; it's not a database. Access is an excellent database development environment; but it's not a word processor. Expecting Access to behave like Word will get you all sorts of headaches! John W. Vinson[MVP] I checked filext.com and it says it a DarkBasic file. Some sort of game development program. Maybe it was a typo on the OP's part. gls858 |
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