I have a Lotus Approach file (.apr) that I need to open, but I don't have the
Lotus Approach software anymore. I do have office 2000. Is there anyway I
can open (or import) this file?

I used to use it and as I recall it used a standard DBF file for the
data. MS Access should be able to open that/those files. However all
reports, forms, sorts etc will not be there. You will need to recreate
relationships reports and forms.

"Mary" <Mary@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I have a Lotus Approach file (.apr) that I need to open, but I don't have
> the
> Lotus Approach software anymore. I do have office 2000. Is there anyway
> I
> can open (or import) this file?


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Mary <M...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote...
>I have a Lotus Approach file (.apr) that I need to open, but I don't
>have the Lotus Approach software anymore. *I do have office 2000. *Is
>there anyway I can open (or import) this file?

Only Lotus Approach can open .APR files. No other database or Office-
like application suite vendor ever bothered supporting it. You may be
able to extract plain text from it, but it's unlikely you'll be able
to extract numbers or dates from it without Lotus Approach.