.dba that I can't open

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Denise

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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John Vinson

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.
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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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gls858

John said:
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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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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