Hi there,

I have a table that I want to export from Access to Excel and know I can do this using either the 'Transfer to spreadsheet' or 'Output to' macros. What I want to do though is to have access automatically name the new excel file in the format tablename_date. Where the date is the date and time for running a query macro. I'd also like to set a weekly interval to run the queries automatically and output the resulting table summary file to excel file.

thanks for any assistance on how best to do :)

You will need a bit of code for this...

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Public Function pfunExportTable(strTableName As String, strFilePath As String, blnFieldNames As Boolean)
Dim strFileDestination As String

If Right(strFilePath, 1) <> "\" Then strFilePath = strFilePath & "\"

strFileDestination = strFilePath & strTableName & "_" & Format(Now(), "yymmddhhss") & ".xls"

DoCmd.TransferSpreadsheet acExport, acSpreadsheetTypeExcel9, strTableName, strFileDestination, blnFieldNames

End Function
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This should do the trick for you. Put this into its own module and then you can call it from code or from a macro.

Thanks for the swift response. I've pasted the code into an Access module and saved it. What Macro action do I use to run the code? The 'Open Module' only opens the module without executing it. Also the table is called Summary I presume I need to replace strTableName to read strSummary?

Sorry very new to the code side of things..

thanks !

ok... the code is a function which you pass parameters to... so with a table called "Summary", to output your file with Column Headings you would use:

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pfunExportTable "Summary", "C:\Whatever", True
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The macro command you need is "RunCode"

I think i'm almost there but get the error message 'Microsft access cant find the table pfunExportTable you entered in the expression' ??

thanks..

Managed to fix this, works now, Thanks Lee !!

Doh, just reading your response and noticed I seem to have used YYMMDDHHSS in the date format... you will probably want the minutes rather than the SECONDS in your filename!!! Err, what is it? YYMMDDHHNN... give that a go instead, but you may well have worked this out already.