[AccessD] Linking to an excel spreadsheet

How about:
DoCmd.TransferSpreadsheet acLink, acSpreadsheetTypeExcel9, "sheet1",
"c:\temp\receipts.xls", True, "a1:h100"

Hth
Steve


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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Colby, John
Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 12:53 PM
To: 'AccessD at DatabaseAdvisors.com'
Subject: [AccessD] Linking to an excel spreadsheet


Does anyone have code for linking to an excel spreadsheet?

If I manually create a link, the wizard finds all the fields, sets up
with the "first line has field names" etc.  Everything works fine.
However if the table is not linked already, I need to create a tabledef,
set the SourceTableName and Connect properties.  If I then try to append
the tabledef to db.tabledefs I get an error that no fields are defined.
It is obvious that a LOT more is involved here.  It appears that I have
to open the spreadsheet, get the first line, create fields with the data
in the first line, somehow figure out the datatype of each column etc.
Is there a prebuilt code I can call to do all this stuff?  If the wizard
can do it, then the code behind the wizard could do it for me.

Has anyone ever done this?

John W. Colby
The DIS Database Guy

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