Launch Excel and open the spreadsheet you wish to load into Access. Verify that the spreadsheet's column names match the Access table's field names.

Excel macros use Visual Basic code to perform functions unavailable through the program's graphical controls. For example, macros can extract data from a sheet, perform string operations on them ...

Excel offers myriad options for referring to workbooks and sheets in your VBA code. See which methods make sense in which situations.

Excel can send alerts based on spreadsheet data, but you'll need to write a macro to do it. We'll show you how.