Subject Re: exporting .ods file in calc From Lee Grant <camilee@nospam.comcast.net> Date Thu, 28 Aug 2025 02:19:34 -0400 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started Sorry Charlie, (I had to do that, in reference to Charlie the Tuna. :)  ) I just opened an OpenOffice calc sheet, in Libre Office Calc, and then Saved As, into a .dbf file.  Went to dBASE 2019, and opened the file...no problem. Now, that being said, the Libre Office TRIED to save it as "Western Europe(DOS/OS2-850/International)" Character set, which was weird to me.   I had to manually make it go to the bottom of the list and save as "Western Europe(Windows-1252/WinLatin1)" Character set.  That may be your problem, as I'm unaware of whether or not, dBASE will understand be able to read any other character set from Libre Office. Lee On 8/27/2025 3:26 PM, Charlie wrote: > Charlie Wr > > Wow this failed in dbase 2019, but works with the headers correct in dbase 11.  Did something change with 2019 to make this fail?  Or is there something I need to change in 2019?? > >> I am trying to export an .ods spreadsheet file into dbase.  Libre allows this as an easy way to make a dbase .dbf from an .ods or xlsx file.  I have done this before successfully.  This time instead of the first line of the spreadsheet becoming field names, the field names are the headers of the spreadsheet such as a b c d......    I may have had this problem a long time ago and fixed it somehow.  Anyone have a clue on this?   Thanks >