[AccessD] Updating Excel From Access

Hi Andy,

A few months ago MS lost a patent lawsuit which required them to remove the
ability they had to update a linked Excel spreadsheet.  Access was then
changed in one of the MS updates you've installed since then, and of course
it doesn't work in Access 2007.

Personally, it seems to me like they could have settled this.

At least you didn't break it!

Dan Waters

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Subject: [AccessD] Updating Excel From Access

Hi folks
Years ago I wrote a little Access MDB for someone under A97. It's dead
simple. It reads a column of data from 1 Excel sheet via a query into an
Access table which has a unique index on that column/field (thereby
deduplicating the data) then writes that table back out to Excel worksheet 2
via a second append query. Piece of cake. Except that I get a call from this
guy to say they've gone to A2007 and it's stopped working. Now I don't have
A2007 but I do have AXP so I loaded it into that. Sure enough it fails
because the query which appends from the Access table to the 2nd Excel
worksheet says the query must be updateable and when I open the Excel
worksheet via the Access link to it sure enough it's read-only. This must be
one of those god-awful MS security 'enhancements' I guess. What's the
solution. So the long pre-amble leads to the simple question - how do I make
a linked Excel worksheet updateable?

-- Andy Lacey
http://www.minstersystems.co.uk 


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