Problem transferring data from Filemaker to Office 2004

[maclover]

I am currently using Filemaker Pro 6 and just recently downloaded the trial version of 8.5 but am having trouble exporting data to Word and excel (same problem I had with 7). I frequently use my databases to produce various spreadsheets and to merge with various Word documents however; when I open my excel and click Data-Get External Data-Import from Filemaker Pro; it won't let me select my 8.5 db's. The same thing happens with Word. I am using Office 2004. Help!! This is driving me crazy.

[AHunter3]

I don't have a good answer for you, but for a workaround you can export data from FileMaker as tab-delimited or comma-delimited text and then open/convert that in Excel.

 

EDIT: I do vaguely recall hearing about integration with Office being a known issue, if I run across a cite / source, I'll come back and post it.

 

No clue about Word, I don't use Word, don't own Word, and wouldn't want any of my application software forced to share hard drive space with Word. I do all my mail-merging in FileMaker itself. (Yay merge codes).

[anthrob]

Microsoft does not support the direct import of data from FileMaker after version 6.

[gwent]

An ODBC Connection may help you. Take a look at this site

http://www.actualtechnologies.com/

 

gwent

[hanspc]

I export FM8 data into Excel. Then that data is available to put into any other Excel spreadsheet.