Import data to Access from Excel

Monday, February 4th, 2008 645 views

Back in January, I promised to post a macro that imports data from Excel into Access programmatically. (See My First Access Macro.) It takes a given spreadsheet and imports it into a given Access file/table. The spreadsheet must have a header row, with no blank rows or columns inside the table block. ...

Check Access table(s) from Excel using Automation - Updated Code

Thursday, January 31st, 2008 17 views

Here is the revised and completed code that I posted yesterday. The DAO declarations are moved outside the Sub procedure and the 'Set' statements are outside the function loop. Also, the table & column headers are now passed as arguments to the function, making the code more compact. The speed ...

Check Access table(s) from Excel using Automation

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 37 views

Finally, with some help from the good folks over in the microsoft.public.access.modulesdaovba newsgroup, I was able to complete my code to search an Access database for some information stored in an Excel worksheet. This code will cycle through a list of numbers in column B, starting in cell B2, then check ...

My first Access macro

Friday, January 18th, 2008 66 views

I wrote my first Access macro today! Now, I am not a big fan of Access, but unfortunately I have to use it at work because it is the first choice for most people looking for a db (short for "database") program. For most situations, I prefer Excel. At work I ...