Convert files from Lotus to Microsoft

D

Diane

Is there a batch conversion utility that is known to work to convert Lotus
files to Microsoft files? These would include databases, word processing and
spreadsheets.

We have several thousand files to be converted to Microsoft and it would be
time prohibitive to go in to each and every one and export or do a file, save
as.
Thanks,
Diane
 
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Harlan Grove

Diane wrote...
Is there a batch conversion utility that is known to work to convert Lotus
files to Microsoft files? These would include databases, word processing and
spreadsheets.

We have several thousand files to be converted to Microsoft and it would be
time prohibitive to go in to each and every one and export or do a file, save
as.
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This isn't the best newsgroup for technical Excel or Word questions.
You'd be better off asking in the Excel or Word newsgroups, e.g., for
spreadsheets, microsoft.public.excel, which for some odd reason isn't
available using the newer Microsoft newsgroup portal, but is still
availble through the older portal at

http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.excel

Anyway, there's only one commercial file conversion product that would
be likely to work reasonably well, DataViz's ConversionPlus.

To be honest, Lotus software itself does a better job of converting its
own files to other formats than any other tool. You could use macros in
1-2-3 and WordPro to convert batches of files to .XLS or .DOC formats.
As for Approach, I never worked with it, so I don't know what sort of
macro facility it has, but it must have the ability to store database
files in different formats like dBase IV .DBF files or even plain text
..CSV files.
 
D

Diane

Thank you for the info...I'll contact DataViz.

Harlan Grove said:
Diane wrote...

This isn't the best newsgroup for technical Excel or Word questions.
You'd be better off asking in the Excel or Word newsgroups, e.g., for
spreadsheets, microsoft.public.excel, which for some odd reason isn't
available using the newer Microsoft newsgroup portal, but is still
availble through the older portal at

http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.excel

Anyway, there's only one commercial file conversion product that would
be likely to work reasonably well, DataViz's ConversionPlus.

To be honest, Lotus software itself does a better job of converting its
own files to other formats than any other tool. You could use macros in
1-2-3 and WordPro to convert batches of files to .XLS or .DOC formats.
As for Approach, I never worked with it, so I don't know what sort of
macro facility it has, but it must have the ability to store database
files in different formats like dBase IV .DBF files or even plain text
..CSV files.
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