Importing data from Access into Excel

Question

I have a macro in an Excel budget worksheet I am working on that pulls an entire table from an Access database. My macro then has a bunch of SUMIFS and formatting functions that organize and format specific data into a separate worksheet. I would prefer that the entire table (21,000 lines of budget data) not be dumped into the Excel worksheet when I only require a few lines of data depending on which "team" I am selecting. Is there any way to specify in my Access data dump that I only want specific lines of data from the table (of 21,000 lines) rather than the entire table? Is there a way to ignore the headers when doing the data dump?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

If you've recorded a macro doing this, you can simply edit the commandtext to be your select statement. Example below would only pull a single column, ID, from the Templates table, instead of the whole table.

Sub MyRecordedMacro
With ActiveSheet.ListObjects.Add(SourceType:=0, Source:=Array( _
    "OLEDB;Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Password="""";User ID=Admin;Data Source=C:\Users\meuser\Desktop\database.accdb;Mode=Share Deny " _
    , _
    "Write;Extended Properties="""";Jet OLEDB:System database="""";Jet OLEDB:Registry Path="""";Jet OLEDB:Database Password="""";Jet OLEDB:En" _
    , _
    ...
    .CommandText = "Select ID From Templates"
    ...
    ...
    End With

You can learn how to create an appropriate select statement here: http://www.w3schools.com/sql/sql_select.asp

I don't know how to exclude headers from this type of import. However you could just delete the header row in excel after the import.