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Mary-anne has attended:
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Database function

How can I connect an excel spread sheet to a live database?

RE: Database function

Hello Mary-Anne,

Thank you for your question. If you want to get external data from a database programme into Excel, there are tools in the Data tab which will import and link to data from software such as Access and SQL.

To link Excel outward to a database, other database programmes also have controls similar to Excel's which can import and link the Excel data. Just make sure that the Excel data is arranged in columns with column headers. These columns will form the fields of the database.

I hope this helps.

Kind regards
Marius Barnard
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Excel tip:

Convert Text to Columns in Excel 2010

If you have a cell in your Excel spreadsheet that contains a lot of text and you want to divide it into separate columns, this can only be done if there is a logical character which separates the text, for example, a comma.

Select the cells you would like to convert. On the Data tab, click Text to Columns. Choose the format of your current data.

Select Delimited if the text contains a logical character otherwise select Fixed Width if there are a certain number of spaces between each field.

Click Next when a preview of the data appears. Then select the type of character that separates the various fields. If the character is not listed, select Other and enter the character.

Click Next again and then choose the format for each of the columns. Select the column heading in the Data preview and then select a data type from the Column data format options.

Click Finish and the text will appear in several columns.

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