Best way, with least work in the long run for you, is to probably use Excel's
Import Data features to create a 'query' into the Access database directly.

Start by using Excel's Help and enter
About exchanging data between Excel and Access
as the search subject. There's actually a topic of that title (Excel 2003).
Look at the section on "Bring refreshable Access data into Excel" for more
guidance and examples.

Hope this helps get you started -- you can always ask more questions as you
dig in to your solution.


"Lisa" wrote:

Is there a way to process a vlookup to a text file or access database.

I have very large access files that if needed i can convert to text files.
I need to pull a couple of columns to an excel file based on one column
possibly via a vlookup. This excel file data is constantly changing and i
need to pull data from a database.

What would be the best way get the data when needed into the excel file?
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lmo