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I'm sorry if I have offended you Bob, you have been very helpful I promise!
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Hi,
I need to write a macro for access, that will export the contents of a query to a specific tab on an excel spreadsheet, whilst overwriting the exiting contents. Is this possible?
I have tried various ways, but it always wants to overwrite the excel file altogether!
Thank you.
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I'm sorry if I have offended you Bob, you have been very helpful I promise!
Thank you to you both!
I did try that (I think) ... The original code was for January, so I made a new call and changed "Jan" for "Feb".
The code exports nothing to the Feb tab, and Access ends up with an error:
Select method of range class failed.
It's not that I don't get it, I have tried but failed. :-(
Oh, and I merged the two threads together since there shouldn't have been another one to begin with.
Bob Larson, Former Access MVP (2008-2010) http://www.btabdevelopment.com (free Access tools, tutorials, and samples)
You don't copy the module again. As Scott said, you call it from wherever you want. So, if you want multiple queries in one click of a button you would use:
Private Sub Image57_Click()
Call SendTQ2XLWbSheet("JP Completions Jan", "Jan", "O:\Public\Public Users Folders\Jack Powell\Jack Powell Target Sheet 2011.xlsm")
Call SendTQ2XLWbSheet("JP Completions Feb", "Feb", "O:\Public\Public Users Folders\Jack Powell\Jack Powell Target Sheet 2011.xlsm")
Call SendTQ2XLWbSheet("JP Completions Mar", "Mar", "O:\Public\Public Users Folders\Jack Powell\Jack Powell Target Sheet 2011.xlsm")
Call SendTQ2XLWbSheet("JP Completions Apr", "Apr", "O:\Public\Public Users Folders\Jack Powell\Jack Powell Target Sheet 2011.xlsm")
Call SendTQ2XLWbSheet("JP Completions May", "May", "O:\Public\Public Users Folders\Jack Powell\Jack Powell Target Sheet 2011.xlsm")
End Sub
and so on. Do you get it now?
Bob Larson, Former Access MVP (2008-2010) http://www.btabdevelopment.com (free Access tools, tutorials, and samples)
This is what Bob gave me, and it works, but only for one query to spreadsheet. When I copy both parts, and amend the call, it says the module is ambiguous.
CALL AS FOLLOWS:
Private Sub Image57_Click()
Call SendTQ2XLWbSheet("JP Completions Jan", "Jan", "O:\Public\Public Users Folders\Jack Powell\Jack Powell Target Sheet 2011.xlsm")
End Sub
MODULE AS FOLLOWS:
Public Function SendTQ2XLWbSheet(strTQName As String, strSheetName As String, strFilePath As String)
' strTQName is the name of the table or query you want to send to Excel
' strSheetName is the name of the sheet you want to send it to
' strFilePath is the name and path of the file you want to send this data into.
Dim rst As DAO.Recordset
Dim ApXL As Object
Dim xlWBk As Object
Dim xlWSh As Object
Dim fld As Field
Dim strPath As String
Const xlCenter As Long = -4108
Const xlBottom As Long = -4107
On Error GoTo err_handler
strPath = strFilePath
Set rst = CurrentDb.OpenRecordset(strTQName)
Set ApXL = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
Set xlWBk = ApXL.Workbooks.Open(strPath)
ApXL.Visible = True
Set xlWSh = xlWBk.Worksheets(strSheetName)
xlWSh.Range("A1").Select
If rst.RecordCount = 0 Then
MsgBox "There are no records to export"
Exit Function
End If
For Each fld In rst.Fields
ApXL.ActiveCell = fld.Name
ApXL.ActiveCell.Offset(0, 1).Select
Next
rst.MoveFirst
xlWSh.Range("A2").CopyFromRecordset rst
xlWSh.Range("1:1").Select
' This is included to show some of what you can do about formatting. You can comment out or delete
' any of this that you don't want to use in your own export.
With ApXL.Selection.Font
.Name = "Arial"
.Size = 12
.Strikethrough = False
.Superscript = False
.Subscript = False
.OutlineFont = False
.Shadow = False
End With
ApXL.Selection.Font.Bold = True
With ApXL.Selection
.HorizontalAlignment = xlCenter
.VerticalAlignment = xlBottom
.WrapText = False
.Orientation = 0
.AddIndent = False
.IndentLevel = 0
.ShrinkToFit = False
.MergeCells = False
End With
' selects all of the cells
ApXL.ActiveSheet.Cells.Select
' does the "autofit" for all columns
ApXL.ActiveSheet.Cells.EntireColumn.AutoFit
' selects the first cell to unselect all cells
xlWSh.Range("A1").Select
rst.Close
Set rst = Nothing
Exit Function
err_handler:
DoCmd.SetWarnings True
MsgBox Err.Description, vbExclamation, Err.Number
Exit Function
End Function