Microsoft KB Archive/49762

Works: Converting Jazz Database Documents PSS ID Number: Q49762 Article last modified on 06-21-1993 PSS database name: M_WorKs

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Summary:

TRANSFERRING DATABASE FILES BETWEEN WORKS AND JAZZ
The Microsoft Works Database can open a text file from Lotus Jazz. Because the Jazz Database cannot directly save a text file, the data is first copied into a Jazz Word Processor document and then saved.

To convert a Database file from Jazz to Works, do the following:

In Jazz

 * 1) Open the Database document in Jazz.
 * 2) From the Edit menu, choose Select All.
 * 3) From the Edit menu, choose Copy.
 * 4) Close the Database document.
 * 5) Open a new Word Processor document.
 * 6) From the Edit menu, choose Paste (ignore how the text is formatted since the tabs do not line up properly).
 * 7) From the File menu, choose Save As and type a name for the document.
 * 8) Select Text Only and then click the Save button.

In Works

 * 1) Open Works.
 * 2) Select the Word Processor icon in the Open dialog box.
 * 3) Click the Import button.
 * 4) Select the file and click Open.
 * 5) Select the data and choose Copy from the Edit menu.
 * 6) Create a new Database document.
 * 7) Create the appropriate number of fields, corresponding to the original number in the Jazz worksheet.
 * 8) Select the leftmost empty cell below the first field name and choose Paste from the Edit menu.

More Information:

Some information does not transfer from Jazz. Any reports defined in Jazz must be redefined in Works, but the data is converted correctly except for computed fields. Computed fields bring their actual values from Jazz, so those fields must be redefined in Works.

Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1993.