{"id":862,"date":"2016-07-20T16:35:58","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T05:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/?post_type=article&p=862"},"modified":"2016-07-20T16:37:15","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T05:37:15","slug":"convert-wdb-files-excel-without-microsoft-works","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/article\/convert-wdb-files-excel-without-microsoft-works\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Convert WDB Files to Excel without Microsoft Works"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you have old WDB Files which you need to open and extract data from\u00a0and don’t have a copy of Microsoft Works laying around here’s the\u00a0method that we recently used to extract the information from an old WDB file. \u00a0Your mileage may vary depending on the complexity of the original WDB file.<\/p>\n

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  1. Uninstall any existing Java versions off your computer from the Control Panel<\/li>\n
  2. Install Java Runtime Environment JRE-7u76 – this can be downloaded still from third party sites like Major Geeks –\u00a0http:\/\/www.majorgeeks.com\/mg\/getmirror\/java_runtime_environment_(jre)_32_bit,1.html<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Go to the Windows Control Panel and click on the Java Applet<\/li>\n
  4. Under the Security tab change the settings to the same as this image:
    \n    \"Java<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. Visit the following page and click on the\u00a0Launch<\/strong> button –\u00a0http:\/\/www.codealchemists.com\/worksdatabaseconverter\/<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. Accept any security prompts, select the source and destination and click on\u00a0Convert<\/strong>
    \n    \"WDB<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. Cross your fingers.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    If you have old WDB Files which you need to open and extract data from\u00a0and don’t have a copy of Microsoft Works laying around here’s the\u00a0method that we recently used to extract the information from an old WDB file. \u00a0Your mileage may vary depending on the complexity of the original WDB file. Uninstall any existing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","article-category":[256],"article-tag":[667,666,668],"class_list":["post-862","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","article-category-uncategorized","article-tag-convert-wdb-file","article-tag-open-wdb-file","article-tag-wdb-file-converter-microsoft-works"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":16,"sum_votes":57},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-category?post=862"},{"taxonomy":"article-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-tag?post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}