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Jan Karel Pieterse Jan Karel Pieterse is offline
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Default Lookup information in Access Database

Hi John,

I would like to interrogate this table using Array formulae, Vlookup and
wanted to know how (if at all possible) i would write the location of the
source data, eg

=vlookup(A1,'Data1.mdb!Table',offset)


What you describe cannot be done directly. But you can use an Access table
as the basis for a pivot table directly. Or you can set up a query to your
table and filter the data: data, get external data, new database query.

You can even create a parameter query and tie the parameter to a worksheet
cell in such a way that the query updates as soon as the cell's value
changes. I think this is what you'd need.

Regards,

Jan Karel Pieterse
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