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Default Using Excel as my database

You can certainly use excel as a database, and read/write/update etc using
ADO, but this requires a fair bit of automation. I think you can access SQL
databases, but I haven't got that far yet. Go to the VBE Editor, then the
VBA Help and search on ADO. Office 200 onwards I believe

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Hello all,

I need to use Excel as my database because my company needs to save
the data in flat files.

Can I define tables in Excel?
Can I retrieve/update records matching set criteria from several
tables?
Can I use SQL?


Thanks a lot,
Rachel



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