I have a real Dilbert kind of assignment that I am hoping that someone can
give me a hand with. Currently my company uses a spreadsheet to calculate
the commision for the sales folks. They want to have a way of saving the
information for historical reasons and want a database. (Personally I don't
see why they just don't save off versions of the database but I don't get to
make that kind of suggestions.)

The spreadsheet is not that complex so there really isn't much that the
database would have to store. It does, however, have a number of
calculations that are based off of the few imputs.

My problem is this. How do I, using either Access or Excel XP, create a
means of displaying the information in a format familer to the users. When I
try to use a Excel drop-in in a Access report and try to import the
information in I get an error that the database is already in use. When I
try to go through Excel, I can't seem to find a dynamic way to send a query
to Access to pull the information that I need.

I might be missing something simple but I am beating my head against the
wall at this point so I could use a fresh perspective.

Thanks