WB3 Converter

Extract text from WB3 files


Drop or upload your .WB3 file
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How to extract text from your WB3 file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your WB3 file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert WB3 to another file type

To convert your WB3 file to another format, you need Quattro Pro or other Spreadsheet software.

  • WB3 to CSV
  • WB3 to JSON
  • WB3 to XML
  • WB3 to YAML
  • WB3 to YML
  • WB3 to TOML
  • WB3 to INI
  • WB3 to CFG
  • WB3 to CONF
  • WB3 to DAT
  • WB3 to DB
  • WB3 to SQL

Convert a file to WB3

To convert other file formats to the "Legacy Workbook" file type, you need software like Quattro Pro or a similar tool.

  • DBF to WB3
  • XML to WB3
  • SQLITE to WB3
  • XLSX to WB3
  • SQL to WB3
  • TSV to WB3
  • ACCDB to WB3
  • YAML to WB3
  • MDB to WB3
  • CSV to WB3
  • ODS to WB3
  • JSON to WB3

About WB3 files

The Problem: A .WB3 file is a legacy spreadsheet created by Quattro Pro, specifically appearing around versions 7 and 8 of the software, which is now part of the Corel WordPerfect Office suite. While Quattro Pro was once a fierce rival to Lotus 1-2-3 and Excel, the .WB3 format is now a significant headache for data retrieval. It uses a proprietary structure based on the Microsoft Compound Document format. The main catch is that modern spreadsheet software - including recent versions of Microsoft Excel - has largely dropped native support for opening these files due to security hardening and obsolescence. Users often encounter error messages stating the file type is blocked or unsupported, leaving financial data, formulas, and multi-sheet notebooks trapped inside a file that opens as gibberish in a text editor.

The Solution: To make this data usable again, immediate conversion is recommended. For users needing to edit formulas or maintain cell structure, converting to XLSX (modern Excel) or ODS (OpenDocument Spreadsheet) is the standard workflow. If you strictly need the raw data for database import, converting to CSV eliminates formatting headaches. For legal archiving where layout preservation is critical, convert the workbook to PDF.

Convert.Guru analyzes your WB3 file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted QPW, WB2 and WQ2 files.



The WB3 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 WB3 converter.