[AccessD] Problems Exporting Access Summary Report to Excel

Jim Lawrence accessd at shaw.ca
Thu Oct 31 14:19:45 CDT 2013


Good link Stuart.

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stuart McLachlan" <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg>
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Thursday, 31 October, 2013 11:39:20 AM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Problems Exporting Access Summary Report to Excel

But make sure you edit the copied macro code so that all references are fully qualfieid.

Otherwise, I'll end up having to post this URL yet again :-)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/319832


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On 31 Oct 2013 at 11:06, Rocky Smolin wrote:

> I also found that I didn't really have to learn how to code formatting
> and other tricky stuff - just start recording a macro on the
> spreadsheet, do all your formatting, cell selecting, or whatever, stop
> the recording, and crib the vba code the recording generated.  
> 
> And once you have a few of those snippets done, it's just a lot of
> copy and paste.
> 
> R
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte
> Foust Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 10:35 AM To: Access Developers
> discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Problems
> Exporting Access Summary Report to Excel
> 
> That's what I've done too Rocky.  It requires a bunch more code to use
> automation, but things get where they're supposed to be.
> 
> Charlotte
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Rocky Smolin
> <rockysmolin at bchacc.com>wrote:
> 
> > Can you use a summation query as the source of your 
> > TransferSpreadsheet to get the grouping totals?
> >
> > When faced with more an a simple flat file export I've often had to
> > resort to creating the spreadsheet with automation, and pushing the
> > data directly into the cells where I want them to be.  It's more
> > work but the advantage is that you have total control of the format
> > - column width, row height, font, color, formulas, etc.
> >
> > Rocky
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Brad
> > Marks Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 11:10 AM To: Access
> > Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: [AccessD]
> > Problems Exporting Access Summary Report to Excel
> >
> > All,
> >
> > In the past, I have experimented with exporting Access Reports to
> > Excel, but I have never had much success.
> >
> > Most of the reports that I have worked with in the past were fairly
> > complex (dynamic sorts, dynamic filters, conditional formatting,
> > sub-totals, etc.)
> >
> > Recently, one of our users has requested that a rather simple Access
> > report be exported to Excel. This report reads data from a purchased
> > package's General Ledger tables.
> >
> > The detail lines of the report are not visible.  There are groupings
> > on Month/Year and on the General Ledger Account Number.  Here is a
> > small example of what the report looks like.
> >
> >
> > Account-AAA  Total $1,000
> > Account-BBB  Total $2,000
> > Account-CCC  Total $3,000
> >    01 2013 Month Total $6,000
> >
> > Account-AAA  Total $1,100
> > Account-BBB  Total $2,200
> > Account-CCC  Total $3,300
> >    02 2013 Month Total $6,600
> >
> >
> > There are many records in the underlying GL table.  The use of
> > Access Report "Groups" makes it very easy to obtain the sub-totals
> > at the two levels (by Account within Month).
> >
> > When I try to export the report to Excel, however, things do not
> > turn out very nicely. For example, the Month and Year fields are not
> > shown. Instead, "AccessTotalsAmount:" is shown for each cell in this
> > Excel
> column.
> >
> > What I am really trying to ask, is if there is a way to employ
> > report groupings and then be able to successfully export such a
> > summary report to Excel.
> >
> > Perhaps there is another way to do this.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Brad
> >
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