msoft works database to excel?

[airwave]

if i create data in msoft works database or msoft works spreadsheet, can this be easily converted in to excel... anyone know the anser? many thanks in advance. airwave

[fobotcso]

This works from Access to Excel when you export the current table of a database to an Excel spreadsheet. Don't know about Works, but maybe it's the same principle

[Bre901]

Don't know about the Works database.

For the spreadsheet, File/Save as... then select the appropriate Excel format (95 or 97-2000) (.xls) in the box below the filename selection box (don't know the english name of that box). Tested it on a small spreadsheet.

[PaperTiger]

Works does not have .xls as one of the available 'Save As' options. You would need to create an intermediate file (.csv) and then import that into Excel.

[Bre901]

Well I'm afraid I have to insist that I just tested that on my PC (WinMe+Works6)

PaperTiger, what version of Works have you used ?

[PaperTiger]

Ah yes, quite so. Didn't read the question properly:o
A Works spreadsheet can be saved as .xls, a Works database (.wdb) can't. This is for Works 4.0 on win95 (don't laugh, if it ain't broke I ain't gonna fix it).