# Quickbooks and Foxpro...accessing QB data

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quickbooks-and-foxpro-accessing-qb-data/251673>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 22, 2004, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quickbooks-and-foxpro-accessing-qb-data/251673 "2004-06-22T17:35:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rattlehead02](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rattlehead02/32/3944_2.png) [@Rattlehead02](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rattlehead02)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quickbooks-and-foxpro-accessing-qb-data/251673/1 "2004-06-22T17:35:47Z")

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I have QB 2004 and Visual Foxpro 7 at work. I am proficient at VFP, but I know nothing about QB.

Is there a way to access a contact list in QB within Foxpro?

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**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2004, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quickbooks-and-foxpro-accessing-qb-data/251673/2 "2004-06-23T01:06:31Z")

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Quicken & Quickbooks are rather proprietary about their data formats, and don’t make it easy for other programs to read their data.

Probably the easiest is to use the reporting function to print your contact list to a file, and then read that into your other program.