Re: [MS_AccessPros] Importing Excel Data into a temporary table

 

Thank you for the reply Crystal.

I spent most of yesterday reading books and doing internet searches and came up with the VBA code necessary to import my Excel file.  I just got it working late last night so I am good now.

That is good to know about the internal tables.  I would never have thought to have even looked at them.

David

---In MS_Access_Professionals@yahoogroups.com, <strive4peace2008@...> wrote :

Hi David,

as for controlling the wizard dialog boxes, you cannot do that ... but you can use the specifications you can create there.

The tables that store import/export specs are:

MsysIMEXspecs
MsysIMEXcolumns

While you cannot modify the tables directly, you can use APPEND queries to add records to those tables -- and you can delete records from them directly. You can probably use UPDATE queries on them too, but what I usually do is

1. make-table from the columns of a spec using MsysIMEXcolumns
2. delete rows from MsysIMEXcolumns for a particular spec
3. modify specs
4. use APPEND query to write records back to MsysIMEXcolumns for a particular spec

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> "the temporary table has the same field names as the columns

in the Excel sheet"

I think they need to be in the same order too -- you can use a query to do that if you don't want to change the table.

have an awesome day,
crystal

On 12/17/17 11:55 PM, david.pratt@... [MS_Access_Professionals] wrote:

Is there a way to view the import wizards background code so I can program a command button to perform the same steps the wizard is performing?

I am importing an Excel file with a single worksheet into the same temporary table each time.  the temporary table has the same field names as the columns in the Excel sheet.  

I have some code from a Programming by Example book, but I cannot get it to work.

Thank you, David

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