Sub dbfTestWork() ' ref: microsoft activex data objects Dim filePath As String Dim fileName As String filePath = "C:\database\" fileName = "test" Dim conn As ADODB.Connection Set conn = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection") conn.Open "Driver={Microsoft dBase Driver (*.dbf)};Dbq=" + filePath + ";" 'conn.Open "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=" & filePath & ";Extended Properties=dBASE IV;" Dim fil As String fil = filePath & fileName & ".dbf" If Not Dir(fil, vbDirectory) = vbNullString

DBF or database file can be easily opened using Microsoft Access and Microsoft Excel. There are three ways of opening the dbf files. Method 1: Using Microsoft Excel. One can easily open the dbf file in Microsoft Excel. The steps are as follows: Launch Microsoft Excel; Go to the File menu and then click on the Open button

You can then define the encoding to convert the text contents into. 2014-04-30 · As far as I know, the encoding of Excel is by design and the German umlaut character of dbf file may be not supported in Excel. I think you could convert the dbf file to other file format such as txt or save the dbf file as ISO-8559-1 to see whether it works. In addition, dBase III and IV format can be opened in Excel, but Excel 2013 doesn't support DBASE II file format (.dbf). (From File format reference for Office 2013) Try Excel DbfMate Add-In. It allows importing data from DBF files directly to worksheet, and exporting data from worksheets to DBF files using either GUI or VBA. Handles character encoding.

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