I am building a small application for a friend and they\'d like to be able to use Excel as the front end. (the UI will basically be userforms in Excel). They have a bunch of dat
It's quite easy and efficient to use Excel as a reporting tool for Access data.
A quick "non programming" approach is to set a List or a Pivot Table, linked to your External Data source. But that's out of scope for Stackoverflow.
A programmatic approach can be very simple:
strProv = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=" & SourceFile & ";"
Set cnn = New ADODB.Connection
cnn.Open strProv
Set rst = New ADODB.Recordset
rst.Open strSql, cnn
myDestRange.CopyFromRecordset rst
That's it !