Importing Adobe Reader Files

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SHARONHARRISON91171

Hi Everyone
I currently receive a report from a customer in an adobe reader file. I was
wanting to know if you can import this type of file into an access table so I
can sort it automatically and save a lot of time?
Thanks
 
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Todos Menos [MSFT]

PDF is a dead end

sorry

but you should keep your data in a DATABASE instead of in
spreadsheets-- maybe you wouldn't have such a problem if you had a
decent database skillset

keep everything in SQL Server

MDB is for lamers
 
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Tony Toews [MVP]

A said:
PDF is a dead end

sorry

but you should keep your data in a DATABASE instead of in
spreadsheets-- maybe you wouldn't have such a problem if you had a
decent database skillset

keep everything in SQL Server

MDB is for lamers
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Note that this person is really A a r o n K e m p f and that he is not an employee
of Microsoft.

Tony
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SHARONHARRISON91171

Tony Toews said:
Note that this person is really A a r o n K e m p f and that he is not an employee
of Microsoft.

Tony
--
Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP
Please respond only in the newsgroups so that others can
read the entire thread of messages.
Microsoft Access Links, Hints, Tips & Accounting Systems at
http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm
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SHARONHARRISON91171

Sorry ! When I say sort it I mean by importing into an Access Table and
sorting the data with the use of a query. So I can extract the data I require.

As things stand at the moment... receiving a report in an adobe reader file
is very hard to work with! You cant do much with it!
 
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Tony Toews [MVP]

I currently receive a report from a customer in an adobe reader file. I was
wanting to know if you can import this type of file into an access table so I
can sort it automatically and save a lot of time?
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Can the customer send you the data in a CSV, DBF or Excel spreadsheet
format?

Tony
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read the entire thread of messages.
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Todos Menos [MSFT]

how about a MDB, dude?

why can't they send the report in MDB format??

seriously tony-- why would you make things so complex?
 
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Tony Toews [MVP]

how about a MDB, dude?

why can't they send the report in MDB format??

seriously tony-- why would you make things so complex?
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Chances are this is not a Microsoft Access product. Thus the chances of the customer
being able to produce a file with the lowest common format, being CSV, is much, much
higher.

Tony
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Todos Menos [MSFT]

are you fucking kidding me?

how would you pull something out of SQL and spit it into CSV? do you
even know the answer to that?

why isn't MDB a 'portable document' Tony?

I just find it humorous; you MDB munchkins have no friggin clue what's
happening in the real world


CSV, DBF, Excel?

THREE OF THE WORST CHOICES EVER
 
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