$$Excel-Macros$$ Re: Excel VBA/ Access

2011-09-17 Thread lifescholar
The Access DB definitely does not need to be open. In fact, it should be possible to run your update query even if Access is not installed on the target system, as the relevant Jet engine is distributed with all versions of Office including Standard. What happens if you try to run the SQL of the q

$$Excel-Macros$$ Re: Excel VBA/ Access

2011-09-16 Thread Kishan Reddy, K
Hello James, I think for using any forms/running any quires, the access has to be opened. Also I think Connection method only used to share the data from the table/queries. Try the following code. Sub MyOpenDb() Dim appAccess As Object Set appAccess = CreateObject("Access.Application")