A common technique for exporting data to Excel is to utilize the DoCmd.OutputTo Method.
Now, previously (pre Office 2007), the basic format to export a query to Excel format was simply:
BUT, once you port such a database to a post Office 2007 computer, you start to get it exported as a 'Microsoft Excel 5.0/95 Workbook (*.xls) Cup pong practice imessage. ' format and such a file will thus open Excel in compatibility mode possibly given the user compatibility errors/messages when they go to save the file after working with it.
You now can add data to Excel directly from a photo. Using the Excel app, just take a picture of a printed data table on your Android or iPhone device and automatically convert the picture into a fully editable table in Excel. This new image recognition functionality. Excel Binary & macro-enabled workbooks may store VBA/macro code, a potential security concern. Macros cannot be stored in the default Excel.xlsx format. Save as Binary is available in Excel 2003, if the Excel 2007 compatibility pack has been installed along with SP3. Excel Binary files are encoded in a proprietary compressed file format.
So unless you have to ensure legacy compatibility, it is strongly advisable to update your code to export the data in 'Excel Workbook (*.xlsx)' format, the new Excel file format thus eliminating any compatibility issues. Hence, we simply need to change the OutputFormat format variable to a more appropriate format (acFormatXLS -> acFormatXLSX). So your code would thus become:
Alternately, you could also use:
Looking to export to a different format?
Nothing could be easier! Vocal pitch correction vst. In the VBA Object browser, go to the Access Contants library and look over the various acFormat**** available to you. Such as:
- acFormatHTML
- acFormatPDF
- acFormatRTF
- acFormatSNP
- acFormatTXT
- acFormatXLS
- acFormatXLSB
- acFormatXLSX
- acFormatPS
Taking Things a Little Further
It wouldn't be very difficult to create a custom DoCmd.OutputTo function which could determine the version of MS Excel installed and the utilize the more appropriate OutputFormat variable. Then you code would be 100% compatible regardless of what your users have installed!
You now can add data to Excel directly from a photo. Using the Excel app, just take a picture of a printed data table on your Android or iPhone device and automatically convert the picture into a fully editable table in Excel. This new image recognition functionality. Excel Binary & macro-enabled workbooks may store VBA/macro code, a potential security concern. Macros cannot be stored in the default Excel.xlsx format. Save as Binary is available in Excel 2003, if the Excel 2007 compatibility pack has been installed along with SP3. Excel Binary files are encoded in a proprietary compressed file format.
So unless you have to ensure legacy compatibility, it is strongly advisable to update your code to export the data in 'Excel Workbook (*.xlsx)' format, the new Excel file format thus eliminating any compatibility issues. Hence, we simply need to change the OutputFormat format variable to a more appropriate format (acFormatXLS -> acFormatXLSX). So your code would thus become:
Alternately, you could also use:
Looking to export to a different format?
Nothing could be easier! Vocal pitch correction vst. In the VBA Object browser, go to the Access Contants library and look over the various acFormat**** available to you. Such as:
- acFormatHTML
- acFormatPDF
- acFormatRTF
- acFormatSNP
- acFormatTXT
- acFormatXLS
- acFormatXLSB
- acFormatXLSX
- acFormatPS
Taking Things a Little Further
It wouldn't be very difficult to create a custom DoCmd.OutputTo function which could determine the version of MS Excel installed and the utilize the more appropriate OutputFormat variable. Then you code would be 100% compatible regardless of what your users have installed!
Are There Any Alternatives
Open Excel Xlsx Files
Another approach available to us is simply automate Excel. This is the approach I have adopted. In my early development days, I used the built-in DoCmd.OutputTo command, but have long since abandoned it for my own custom export function: Export2XLS. Why? The custom function approach is fully compatible with whichever version of Excel a user has installed, and gives the programmer far more control over what the final export looks like. You can format Cells/Ranges, apply colors, fonts, … Its always sunny titles.
