As I said, these spreadsheets were originally done in Excel 2000, and both access a dBase III database and save as a DBF3 file (which I think is used to transfer data into another dBase III database). The company is installing Office 2010 as the new standard, and my project is to upgrade a number of workbooks (including translating some Quattro Pro stuff to Excel) and Access databases.

It's possible that the dBase files are to be transferred to Access, but I haven't had a chance to check with the people who use the spreadsheets. It's also conceivable that saving as text (possibly tab-separated or CSV format) would serve the same purpose.

I tracked down the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 help site, which states that Excel 2010 does not save files in DBF3 or DBF4 format, so that pretty much settles that. Still, do you have any idea where I might go looking for file converters (it's always good to have options)?

Thanks for the timely response.