You can use the ADO Excel driver. Plenty of examples if you google this
newsgroup or the web.

Tim

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Tim Williams
Palo Alto, CA


"David Wright" wrote in message
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Hi,

Wondering if anyone can advise how to query a named range within an excel
spreadsheet. ie rather than query an external datasource I would like to
have
a table in excel that is named by a range and then query the range using
criteria to return a sub set of records. I would prefer not to do this
using
pivot tables, unless there is a way to turn off the GUI interface to pivot
tables.

Thanks

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David Wright