> On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 11:23:09 -0800, Denise
> <Den***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Very new user to Access
>>
>>Trying to pring labels from a .dba someone sent me.  I can't even get it
>>open.  Will Access open it?  Print labels from it?
>>
>>I'm much more familiar with the simple process of creating a database in
>>Word and doing my mailings that way.
>
>
> An Access database uses the .mdb (or its variants) format - not .dba.
> I'm not even sure what database software uses .dba files. You might
> try using File... Get External Data... Import and select something
> appropriate for "files of type".
>
> Microsoft Word is an excellent word-processing program; it's not a
> database. Access is an excellent database development environment; but
> it's not a word processor. Expecting Access to behave like Word will
> get you all sorts of headaches!
>
>
>                   John W. Vinson[MVP]