Online Documentation for Advanced Data Import for RAD Studio VCL

Supported file formats

MS Excel 97-2003

The most popular e-table format used by Microsoft® Excel (*.xls). The result files are fully compatible with Microsoft® Excel versions 97-2003.

 

MS Access

File of Microsoft® Access format (*.mdb, *.accdb) with an ADO connection used.

 

MS Word

One of the most popular text processing formats used by Microsoft® Word (*.docx). The result files are fully compatible with Microsoft® Word.

 

RTF

Rich Text Format (*.rtf) supported by many text processing programs (e.g. WordPad).

 

HTML

Hyper Text Markup Language file format (*.html, *.htm), complete compatibility with HTML 4.0 specification.

 

PDF

A standard format in electronic publishing (*.pdf).

 

Text file

Plain text file format (*.txt).

 

CSV file

Comma-Separated Value file format (*.csv).

 

DIF file

Data Interchange File (*.dif) format.

 

SYLK

Symbolic Links (*.slk) file format.

 

Note: All the text formats including Text file, CSV, DIF, SYLK are usually used as working or interchange formats.

 

LaTeX

A specific file format (*.tex) which is a popular (especially among mathematicians and physicists) macroextension of TeX pack developed by D.Knut.

 

XML

A markup language for documents containing structured information (*.xml).

 

DBF

Database file format (*.dbf) used by dBASE and a number of xBASE applications.

 

MS Excel

The contemporary e-table format used by Microsoft® Excel (*.xlsx).

 

ODF Spreadsheets

OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications - open document file format for spreadsheets (*.ods) used by a number of applications including OpenOffice.org and KOffice.

 

ODF text

OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications - open document file format for word processing (*.odt) documents used by a number of applications including OpenOffice.org and KOffice.