Mike

Oh, I see. I don't think you can prevent Excel from doing what it wants to
your strings. If you describe your situation and why you want to do this,
maybe someone will have another way to accomplish it.

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Dick Kusleika
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Mike Jones wrote:
What I'm seeing is that I can change it programmatically like this,
but when I save my XL spreadsheet, then reopen, its back to how it
originally was; with all the extra, unwanted stuff.

Strange.

"Dick Kusleika" wrote in message
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Mike

You can change the Connection and CommandText properties of the
QueryTable object. I've never really done it from the import side,
just the standard query table so it may be slightly different. I'll
be it's real similar to this

http://www.dicks-clicks.com/excel/Ex....htm#ChangeSQL

Dick

Mike Jones wrote:
I've set up a QueryTable using "import external data". Works fine,
except I want to change my datasource. When you import, it pulls in
your machine name, hard coded database name, etc. I don't want that
stuff. I want this much

"ODBC;DSN=MyDB;Trusted_Connection=Yes"

Is there a way to change this from the UI? If not, a way to do it
programmatically?

Thanks