1. Import/Export Data ISYS 363

2. Access Tools for Import/Export External Data – Import – Export Exchange data between: – Other Access databases – Excel – Text file – XML – ODBC data sources

3. Data Exchange with Excel Import from Excel: – The first row of Excel’s list should contain field names – External Data/Import/Excel Export to Excel: – External Data/Export/Excel Note: Saved imports/exports

4. Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) Provide a standard to retrieve data from a database. It manages one or more "database drivers“ that enables the communication between database and applications. To access a database, we use ODBC facilities to define a ODBC data source name for the database.

5. ODBC Demo Define an ODBC data source name: – Control Panel/Administrative tools/Data source(ODBC) Import from an ODBC data source – External Data/Import/ODBC data source

6. Export/Import XML File Export: – External Data/More/XML – XML Data file – XML schema file Import: – External Data/Import XML

7. Export to Word Write data to a Word file: – External Data/More/Word Merge data with a Word document – Select the table or query – External Data/Word Merge

8. Excel’s Tools for Import/Export Data/Get External Data – From Access – From Web – From Other Sources ODBC XML – Existing Connections Saved Queries Save Query Refresh: Data/Refresh All – Compare the difference between Copy/Paste and Import

9. Excel’s Web Query Demo Yahoo/Finance/Dow Save query Import Using existing connection Refresh