Updating records as an import

[Darth_Beckett]

Ok so I have a table that has Customer Contacts logged into it. One of the fields in the table is Owner_ID. This field is a text field that contains the salespersons name that is the current "owner" of that account. Because of the business that I am in, this field can change many times within a given quarter (I will be updating every quarter). For duplication purposes (i bulk upload records from excel worksheets that the salespeople give me) I have my primary key set up as contact first name + contact last name + zip code. If I have to update lets say 400 records just to change the owner of a certain customer contact, how can I do that as a bulk import?

My first thought would be that I would have on my excel sheet the 3 fields that make up the primary key along with the 1 field (owner_id) and it would autochange the information in that particular record....but obviously I don't know how to really do this.

Please help.

 

[llkhoutx]

Do it with a query after the records are imported, or hard code a field in your excel sheet being imported. The former is the better practice.