As part of the ESRI shape file format, there is a dBase (dbf) file with data in spreadsheet format. MS Excel for Mac (2004, 2008) will not open this file (MS Excel for Windows open dBase files, the Mac version seems not to do so).
I open the dBase dbf file from the ESRI shape (from DIVA GIS) with OpenOffice.
org 3.0.0 on a MacBook with OS X Leopard Version 10.5.6. This works fine for
me and I can save the file for example to an MS Excel format to open with MS
Excel 2008 for Mac (or directly to the CSV format). The dBase file does not
open well with MS Excel 2008 even with the "All Documents" trick. Left click
open with OpenOffice works fine.
You may also want to try the command line application: dbf-0.8.3.1, dbf-0.9.0-Alpha-1
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