Hi,

Is there a way to build a form in Access so that I can just point to an excel file and have it do its 'magic' in the background to import it without going through all the steps of the import wizard...

In essence what I want is a form to pop up, browse to said excel file and it will do it... all in one shot... non of the excess import wizard steps.

Are you wanting to import the data to a new table each time or completely refresh a table with all new data or append records to the table?


dartcoach

I would want to append the data to a new table each time...

Ok, is the excel file always the same format?

dartcoach

yes the layout will always be the exact same thing...

Ok. Do the import once, manually to create the table. Make sure you edit the column names on the new table to be something meaningfull.

Put a button on a form and put this code behind hit:

   'Requires reference to Microsoft Office 12.0 Object Library.

   Dim fDialog As Office.FileDialog
   Dim varFile As Variant
   'Set up the File Dialog.
   Set fDialog = Application.FileDialog(msoFileDialogFilePicker)
   With fDialog
      'False, the user clicked Cancel.
      .Filters.Clear
      .Filters.Add "Excel Spreadsheets", "*.xls"
      If .Show = True Then
         For Each varFile In .SelectedItems
            DoCmd.RunSQL "Delete * from TableName"
            DoCmd.TransferSpreadsheet acImport, acSpreadsheetTypeExcel7, "TableName", varFile, False
         Next
      Else
         MsgBox "You clicked Cancel in the file dialog box."
      End If
   End With


Hope this helps.


dartcoach