Can Excel directly access .mdb?

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Brian

Howdy All,

I've been working on a project (with much help from Dave Peterson!)

I've imported some data from an Access Database.

Put I guess I should've asked this question first:

Can I set up a connection to the database and run macros and functions on
the data in Excel?

It seems to me if I can do that, I would save alot of time.

Thanks,
Brian
 
P

Patrick Molloy

yes

menu: Data/Import External Data/New Database Query

select MS Access and follow the questions
 
B

Brian

Thanks Patrick.

Your solution is what I've been doing.

To clarify my question:

Can I use data in the Access DB without actually importing it into Excel?

I apologize if I am being obtuse, much of this is new to me.

Brian
 
H

Harald Staff

Yes, you can read and write to a database, in fact almost all kinds of
databases, from Excel and other MS Office programs, using VBA macros. The
technology you may want to use is called ADO (activex data objects).

HTH. Best wishes Harald
 
B

Brian

Thanks for the replies.

Harald,

If I figure out how to set up a ADO connection to the Access DB, can I
reference data in the DB and run functions/formulas on it in Excel without
actually pulling the data into Excel?

Example of what I mean:

=SUM(DB_cell_reference1:DB_cell_reference90000)

If so, how do I set up the connection and then reference cells in the DB?

Thanks,

Brian
 
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dmoney

Yes- I do this type of thing all the time. My code connects to a database,
querrys the information based on values of cells in excel and then performs
operations using those values and returns the result to excel. Is this what
u are looking for? if so, email me [email protected] and I would be glad
to help.

dmoney
 
B

Brian

Thanks Devin,

I will probably contact you this coming week, I try not to work on the
weekend if I can help it (doesn't always happen like that though)

Could you maybe just post a quick example of how you set up a connection to
TEST.MBD and reference a give row or cell?

Thanks,

Brian
 
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