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:

• Utilize the built in features of Access and Excel to access data

• Use VBA within Access or Excel to access data

• Build connection strings using ADO and DAO

• Automate Excel reports including formatting, functions, and page setup

• Write complex functions and queries with VBA

• Write simple and advanced queries with the Access GUI

• Produce pivot tables and charts with your data

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.

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Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 16 Ratings

A wordy collection of Excel code - 2007-06-01
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The title of this book is misleading. 70% of the book covers Excel and how to make Excel integrate into other platforms and applications. At 190 pages, that means the author spends about 60 pages covering Access (and that's only to cover intuitive tasks accomplished through the user interface). The examples are mostly Excel VBA code; none of which are particularly new or mind blowing.

The strangest part of this book is the author inexplicably puts a half-hearted Excel object model in an Appendix. But no object model for Access? Can anyone say filler? Seems a shame to waste such an interesting topic on this extremely wordy collection of Excel code. The positive: this book is thin enough to fit perfectly under my wobbly desk.

Virtually Useless - 2007-11-25
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I bought this book because I was in a crunch and needed some quick help in getting a model I was building in Excel for a client to talk to the large dataset stored in Access (to run queries through VBA from the Excel platform, etc). It turns out that there's very little about using Excel as the front end and Access as the back end - the author favors using Access up front (including to do some seemingly random and senseless things as update an Excel model through a code you have to execute in Access, for some reason).

Beyond this flaw, my general impression of the book is a bunch of random snippets of code that were useful at some point to the author and which he reproduces with no attempt to actually explain the workings of the code. He then threw this in with a bunch of other stuff that you don't need a book to tell you how to do (import data from Access to Excel, import data to Access, etc.). There was little thought and quality put into this book - it shouldn't have been published.

Indispensable Resource - 2010-01-29
Reviewer Rating:
This ones a real keeper.

As a person who is both a Hobbyist Programmer, who is sometimes called upon to bring those skills into work, I have been searching for this book for some time, it very elegantly describes how to combine the best aspects of Access, It's GUI and report Tools, and Excel - Its ease of use and familiarity to many more users (in my experiance.)

It is of course an O'Reilly book, so its not for Dummys; but if you are at all comfortable with VBA you should have no problems with this book. Mega Props on a great book. BB.

Good examples but some strange best practices - 2009-12-16
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If you are looking for a quick read that gives you examples for Excel / Access projects, this is a useful book. However, many of the author's tips on software development range from curious to flawed and should be taken with a grain of salt (such as adding small numbers to denominators to avoid divide by zero errors). Some important areas such as scalability and security are also absent. For a full review, please see my post at [...].

Needed Coverage of a Specific Topical Area - 2007-11-13
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"Integrating Excel and Access" covers the topic spelled out in the book's title...the integration of Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Access. While this may appear to be a niche topical area, I found such integration to be important, especially when working with large and complex data sets using non-enterprise class tools.

The book does a good job covering the important area of the object models...for both Excel and Access. Utilizing and referencing object models across these two applications can prove to be a critical task when automating the integration of Access and Excel.

I used this book for the specific purpose of automating Excel from Access and vice-versa...thus my focus on object models. As such, I did not focus a great deal on the rest of the book's content.

This is the best reference I have come across related to the automation of Microsoft Excel from Microsoft Access and vice versa.

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