Question : Import Data from Unsaved Excel Spreadsheet to Access Table

I have an Access 2000 database application that creates and populates an Excel spreadsheet.

The spreadsheet then does some calculations and generates some new data.  I would like to import this data back into one of my Access tables.

How do I do this?

I looked at the TransferSpreadsheet method, but it has a couple of problems:
1) It requires a filename, but I have not yet stored my spreadsheet so it doesn't have a name
2) It doesn't let you specify a worksheet name and my workbook has multiple worksheets

I am just using the spreadsheet because it has functionality that I can't replicate in Access (e.g. Solver, Normsinv() function, etc.)  so I don't want to have to save it.  And I need the multiple worksheets because of the shear quantity and complexity of the data I am working with.

Any ideas?

For now I am just going to use a brute force technique of creating INSERT statements data field by data field as I need to get something working this weekend.  But I would appreciate something quicker and more elegant.

Thanks.

Answer : Import Data from Unsaved Excel Spreadsheet to Access Table

ok, reading what u want to do, u want the user to possibly keep the Excel version?
But if u are saving to DB, why bother? U can always query the new table and dump in Excel format anyway

Okay, back to your question. I think the best way is to create and save a temp file


Create a tempname, one simple way is to use datetimesec e.g. sfile = Environ("Username") & format(now(),"YYYYMMDDHHNNSS")

file based on userid and datetime

or u can generate a random word and use that

say u save in c:\myexcel

You can also specify sheet names
e.g. this code renames Sheet1 to George

Sheets(1).Name = "George"


You can then import e.g. Importing a file, I am specifying sheet Geoge and cells A1 to Z10

DoCmd.TransferSpreadsheet acImport, , "mylocaltable", "C:\MyExcel\" & sFile, True, "George$A1:Z100"

Once u do your import, u can delete the file    kill "C:\MyExcel\" & sFile

All this is done without .Visible = True so user not aware of excel file being created,imported and deleted

Now u can output your query in Access. If they want to save it, u can either create a button which outputs using DoCmd.OutputTo and use acFormatXLS. This should prompt the user if u dont specify a filename




Now with what u are doing, I am sure you can do this all in VBA without the use of Excel. but if u do use addins like Solver and if u dont want to do your own calculations, then stick with this