DB-XL: How to Transfer Data From a Database into a Excel Spreadsheet. The sample DB-XL.MAK project contains the file DB-XL.FRM. The idea of the sample is to demonstrate how to take any of the databases that can be exposed in Visual Basic 3.0(ie Paradox 3.x, dBase III or IV, FoxPro 2.0 or 2.5, Access 1.x or Btrieve) and convert the data into a simple spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel 5.0. You first want to select the type of database that you want to convert from the option buttons on the left. Then you need to go to the appropriate directory where the database is located. Next select the particular database by name that you want to convert. Then select which Table that you want to convert and provide a name for the .XLS that you are about to create. If you do not supply a new .XLS name, tmp.XLS will be the name.