Integrating Excel and Access: Combining Applications to Solve Business Problems

by Michael Schmalz

In a corporate setting, the Microsoft Office Suite is an invaluable set of applications. One of Offices' biggest advantages is that its applications can work together to share information, produce reports, and so on. The problem is, there isn't much documentation on their cross-usage. Until now. Introducing Integrating Excel and Access , the unique reference that shows you how to combine the strengths of Microsoft Excel with those of Microsoft Access. In particular, the book explains how the powerful analysis tools of Excel can work in concert with the structured storage and more powerful querying of Access. The results that these two applications can produce together are virtually impossible to achieve with one program separately. But the book isn't just limited to Excel and Access. There's also a chapter on SQL Server, as well as one dedicated to integrating with other Microsoft Office applications. In no time, you'll discover how to: With Integrating Excel and Access , you can crunch and visualize data like never before. It's the ideal guide for anyone who uses Microsoft Office to handle data.

232 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

Reviews

[Michael Tuchman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Extremely useful book

Helpful code examples. I found this invaluable, particularly for examples that showed how to iterate over multiple workbooks. The appendices were useful as well, clearly written, and not just a dumping ground for voluminous material.

I would have liked to see some material on common run time errors that arise in this type of work.

The example on data driven formatting was a thing of beauty, one that I think I will mine frequently.

[May Ling · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is fairly step by step. I would recommend it if you are attempting to build applications within excel to use with access.

[Harryfalix · Rating 5 out of 5]

BRAVO!!!!!!