Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your ODC file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert ODC to another file type
To convert ODC Data connections to another format, you need Microsoft Excel or other Data software.
Convert a file to ODC
To convert other file formats to the "Database Connection File" file type, you need software like Microsoft Excel or a similar tool.
About ODC files
The .ODC file extension primarily represents an Office Data Connection file used by Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft Office applications. These files store connection parameters like server addresses, database names, and authentication methods using HTML and XML. They allow users to share database connections without reconfiguring settings. Another common use for .ODC is the OpenDocument Chart format, an OASIS standard used by LibreOffice Calc to store graphs and charts in a zipped XML structure. Additionally, it is used for Bayesian analysis code in WinBUGS software. Users often need to convert these files due to significant format limitations. A Microsoft Office Data Connection file does not actually contain the source data; it is merely a pointer. Sending it to someone without database access is useless. For OpenDocument Charts, recipients without LibreOffice or an ODF-compatible viewer will struggle to open them. Standard online converters fail because they misinterpret the XML structure or attempt to extract data that simply does not exist in the file. If you have an OpenDocument Chart, the best conversion targets are .PDF or raster images like .PNG or .JPG for universal viewing. For Microsoft data connections, you typically want to extract the underlying data to .CSV or .XLSX using Excel before sharing. Because these are often proprietary or environment-dependent formats, they are difficult to process externally. If our analysis detects standard XML or an embedded chart, viewing or conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your ODC file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert ODC file to PDF, INI, CFG, CONF, CONFIG, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, ENV or PROPERTIES, you can use Microsoft Excel or similar software from the "Data Connection & Chart Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert ZSHRC, CONF, RCFILE, GITCONFIG, RC, PLIST, BASHRC, CONFIG, PROFILE, INI, PREFS or CFG files to ODC, try Microsoft Excel or another comparable tool in the "Data Connection & Chart Storage" category.
The ODC Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our ODC converter.