Re: [OT] Does anyone know a good Access list?

2010-08-17 Thread mike smith
On 17 August 2010 11:28, David Burstin david.burs...@gmail.com wrote: S Again, this would be useful for importing the raw data from Access. What the client needs is to be able to import the generated reports, including calculated fields, totals, formatting, etc. *exactly as they see it on

Re: [OT] Does anyone know a good Access list?

2010-08-17 Thread David Burstin
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 9:35 AM, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote: Odd. I see Excel as being a better app to do calculated fields/formatting than Access. True. But the data has to come from somewhere and they are pretty happy with the Access application they have and the reports it

Re: [OT] Does anyone know a good Access list?

2010-08-17 Thread noonie
David, I feel your pain :-( On 17 August 2010 11:28, David Burstin david.burs...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Arjang. I appreciate yours and everyone's continued efforts to help me solve this. Comments below. SNIP / Again, this would be useful for importing the raw data from Access. What

Re: [OT] Does anyone know a good Access list?

2010-08-16 Thread David Burstin
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 3:47 PM, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote: export to excel workbook seems to export to a xlsx (2007) format ok. What did you test exporting? From a report in the report viewer? From a table? From a query? Cheers Dave

Re: [OT] Does anyone know a good Access list?

2010-08-16 Thread mike smith
I thought when I saw this that it shouldn't matter. My bad there, the options are different. I was doing it from a table. Would exporting it as xml work then? On 16 August 2010 16:11, David Burstin david.burs...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 3:47 PM, mike smith meski...@gmail.com

Re: [OT] Does anyone know a good Access list?

2010-08-16 Thread David Burstin
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 4:29 PM, mike smith meski...@gmail.com wrote: I thought when I saw this that it shouldn't matter. My bad there, the options are different. I was doing it from a table. Would exporting it as xml work then? Tried that too. Exported fine but then could not import to

Re: [OT] Does anyone know a good Access list?

2010-08-16 Thread Alan Heywood
Hi David. As a last resort you could write a .Net app to do the export, using ODBC to get at the data in Access, and something like Farpoint Spread to export to Excel http://www.fpoint.com/netproducts/spreadnet/spreadnet.aspx. On 16 August 2010 16:37, David Burstin david.burs...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [OT] Does anyone know a good Access list?

2010-08-16 Thread David Burstin
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Alan Heywood a...@heywood.id.au wrote: Hi David. As a last resort you could write a .Net app to do the export, using ODBC to get at the data in Access, and something like Farpoint Spread to export to Excel

RE: [OT] Does anyone know a good Access list?

2010-08-16 Thread Anne Busby
-boun...@ozdotnet.com [ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Burstin [david.burs...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, 16 August 2010 3:28 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Does anyone know a good Access list? On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Alan Heywood a...@heywood.id.aumailto:a

RE: [OT] Does anyone know a good Access list?

2010-08-16 Thread Ian Thomas
Sent: Monday, 16 August 2010 2:09 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Does anyone know a good Access list? On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.au wrote: David, that should be possible, out of the box so to speak. I just searched and found an Office article

RE: [OT] Does anyone know a good Access list?

2010-08-16 Thread Ian Thomas
_ From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Ian Thomas Sent: Monday, 16 August 2010 4:35 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: [OT] Does anyone know a good Access list? I'm sure it's possible, David - so I will have a search online (I don't have

Re: [OT] Does anyone know a good Access list?

2010-08-16 Thread David Burstin
Thanks Arjang. I appreciate yours and everyone's continued efforts to help me solve this. Comments below. On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Arjang Assadi arjang.ass...@gmail.comwrote: Hi David, what about exporting into XML , CSV or some other cross compatible format? As mentioned in my

[OT] Does anyone know a good Access list?

2010-08-15 Thread David Burstin
Or have an answer to this: I'm helping a client with some problems they are having with an Access 2007 application. They have reports based on queries with very large result set ( 100,000 rows). They show up fine in the report viewer, but when they hit Export to Excel (built in functionality of

Re: [OT] Does anyone know a good Access list?

2010-08-15 Thread Arjang Assadi
Hi David, I found this : Unless you install the Office 2007 suite Service Pack 2, you cannot export a report to an Excel format in Access 2007 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934833 and this other less usefull one: http://www.access-programmers.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=137521 One question,

RE: [OT] Does anyone know a good Access list?

2010-08-15 Thread Ian Thomas
-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Burstin Sent: Monday, 16 August 2010 1:29 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: [OT] Does anyone know a good Access list? Or have an answer to this: I'm helping a client with some problems they are having with an Access 2007

Re: [OT] Does anyone know a good Access list?

2010-08-15 Thread mike smith
export to excel workbook seems to export to a xlsx (2007) format ok. On 16 August 2010 15:29, David Burstin david.burs...@gmail.com wrote: Or have an answer to this: I'm helping a client with some problems they are having with an Access 2007 application. They have reports based on queries

Re: [OT] Does anyone know a good Access list?

2010-08-15 Thread David Burstin
Hi Arjang On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Arjang Assadi arjang.ass...@gmail.comwrote: Hi David, I found this : Unless you install the Office 2007 suite Service Pack 2, you cannot export a report to an Excel format in Access 2007 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934833 I saw this too.