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Importing to Access XP from Excel XP

Hi all, kind of new to Access, but I'm learning as I go.

What I'm currently trying to do is take data from an Excel spreadsheet
and transfer it into an Access database with mutiple linked tables. The
catch is, columns from the one spreadsheet are spread out over all 6 of
my linked tables. e.g. 2 columns go to 2 fields in table A, another
column goes to a field in table B, 2 more go to 2 fields in table
C...etc.

I can import the whole spreadsheet as a new table, but I can't figure
out how to propagate the fields between tables the way I want. I'm
stumped.

Nov 13 '05 #1
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jfall...@depaul .edu wrote:
Hi all, kind of new to Access, but I'm learning as I go.

What I'm currently trying to do is take data from an Excel spreadsheet and transfer it into an Access database with mutiple linked tables. The catch is, columns from the one spreadsheet are spread out over all 6 of my linked tables. e.g. 2 columns go to 2 fields in table A, another
column goes to a field in table B, 2 more go to 2 fields in table
C...etc.

I can import the whole spreadsheet as a new table, but I can't figure
out how to propagate the fields between tables the way I want. I'm
stumped.


If the spreadsheets share a common value in a column, then you can link
to the spreadsheets and create a query that will put all the info into
a single virtual table. Then you can append that somewhere. It would
be something like this...

SELECT xls1.field1, xls1.field2, xls2.field2
FROM xls1 INNER JOIN xls2 ON xls1.field1=xls 2.field1
WHERE...

then once you have that working, just turn it into either a make table
query or an append query and you're good to go.

Nov 13 '05 #2

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