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Allow Idea export to Excel

This would allow a manager to see all ideas and current vote count

mudnug, 06.07.2010, 18:47
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useridea, 07.07.2010
Good idea. I am including it into our to-do list. However, it will not be very quick - right now we have higher priority items such as different categories and API (so people will be able to use their own GUI).
Idea status: scheduled

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rachelgomez123, 02.09.2022, 09:00
Exporting data to Excel: the basics
When you export data to Excel, Access creates a copy of the selected data, and then stores the copied data in a file that can be opened in Excel. If you copy data from Access to Excel frequently, you can save the details of an export operation for future use, and even schedule the export operation to run automatically at set intervals.

Common scenarios for exporting data to Excel
Your department or workgroup uses both Access and Excel to work with data. You store the data in Access databases, but you use Excel to analyze the data and to distribute the results of your analysis. Your team currently exports data to Excel as and when they have to, but you want to make this process more efficient.

You are a long-time user of Access, but your manager prefers to work with data in Excel. At regular intervals, you do the work of copying the data into Excel, but you want to automate this process to save yourself time.

About exporting data to Excel
Access does not include a “Save As” command for the Excel format. To copy data to Excel, you must use the Export feature described in this article, or you can copy Access data to the clipboard and then paste it into an Excel spreadsheet.

You can export a table, query, form, or report. You can also export selected records in a multiple-record view, such as a datasheet.

Microsoft Excel includes a command to import data from an Access database. You can use that command instead of the export command in Access; however, the Excel import command only allows you to import tables or queries. For more information, see the Excel Help article Connect to (import) external data.

You cannot export macros or modules to Excel. When you export a form, report, or datasheet that contains subforms, subreports, or subdatasheets, only the main form, report, or datasheet is exported. You must repeat the export operation for each subform, subreport, and subdatasheet that you want to export to Excel.

You can only export one database object in a single export operation. However, you can merge multiple worksheets in Excel after you complete the individual export operations.

Regards,
Rachel Gomez

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