A .dbf extension file is a database file that came into existence in the year 1983 when dBASE II was introduced. The DBF format files have a wide acceptance in commercial applications where .dbf extension files are considered to be the standard format to store structured data.
The .xls filename extension is a native binary file format associated with the closed source spreadsheet application Microsoft Office Excel. First introduced in 1987 with the release of Excel 2.x, the file format acts as the container for storing spreadsheet data such as work sheets, charts, and macros. Prior to Microsoft Office Excel 2007, the xls binary format was the default standard for the Microsoft Office Excel until the later adoption of the Open Document standard .xlsx. Documents to be saved in the .xls format are saved as Excel 97, 2003 documents.
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Originally, Wayne Ratliff started the dBASE database in the year 1978 as part of a project called Project Vulcan. It was a simple tabular file in which the ASCII characters were used to add, delete, modify and print the data. The product evolved and became more popular over a period of time with additions and modifications to improve the user experience.
.xls was extended to the Microsoft Office XML format spreadsheetML which was later succeeded by the Office Open XML specification. The format stores data as fixed sized streams and sub streams which contain cell records with actual user input cell data, formulas, cell properties, along with meta data about the file including information such as document author, date of creation, worksheet names etc. The main streams in the xls format are Workbook stream, Globals sub stream, and the worksheet sub stream.
Upload your document file in the DBF format from your device, Dropbox, or Google Drive.
Select XLS as the output format and click Convert. Adjust optional settings if needed.
Download the converted document file. Each file stays available for up to 5 downloads.