Warnings When you import a spreadsheet into an OpenOffice.org database, you lose any text styling, number formatting, macro scripts or charts that you previously used to enhance the data.

Quit the data-search struggle by organizing your raw data into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. Rather than manually scrolling through a list of disorganized records, use Excel's built-in tools to ...

A more recent feature in Dropbase is a new tool called Dropmail, which enables users to email a .csv file to turn it into a SQL database.

PDF Data Connector from Microsoft will help you import and use PDF data into Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. Learn how to use it.

You have a table on paper but need the data listed in Excel? Fortunately, there’s a simple trick for importing data on physical papers (or any other images) into Excel spreadsheets. Take your ...