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Linking excel with access

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Reply Wed 10 Jun 2009, 16:04Delegate Linda said...

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Linking excel with access

how do i link data like contact from excel to acces database

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Reply Fri 12 Jun 2009, 09:59Trainer Anthony said...

RE: linking excel with access

Hi Linda, thanks for the query. There are various ways to bring in contact data from Excel to Access, the easiest is to simply open an Excel file in Access. This will trigger a wizard to format the incoming data appropriately and set up tables etc. There is some loss of functionality (particularly with regard to formulae) but the data itself will be imported intact. Otherwise, click on File - Get External Data and navigate to your data source.

Hope this helps,

Anthony

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