Difficulty getting external data in Access 2007

[mimottershaw]

Hi There,

I have recently upgraded from Office XP to Office 2007. I had an Access database which worked fine in Access XP. In it I had a table linked to an Excel spreadsheet. When I entered data on an access form, it updated the Excel spreadsheet [source document] accordingly. This does not seem to work in Access 2007. The linked table option now does not permit data entry or amendement. The other "Get external data" options create a table in Access which also does not update my source Excel document. The idea is to enter data in Access using a form. This data is placed in an excel spreadsheet. Excel gets some lookup values, and then enters these in a Word mail merge. Without the functionality of a linked table and data entry, I cannot produce new reports.

Can anybody help please?

Regards

Mark M.

 

[PeterF]

Access doesn't support this anymore see here for more info.

 

[mimottershaw]

Thaks for the info Peter. Back to the drawing board I guess!