Update prices in access from Excell

[Simon]

I have a Spreadsheed with the follwoing Coloums, ProductCode, Price

I have a Access Table, tblProduct, with lots of flields but main ones
i need in this project are ProductCode and Price Inc VAt

Currently i have 1300 products in in the database, i have just been
given a spread sheet with 200 new prices for products already in
database. Is there a way to upload an excel spreadsheet that will
upodate price in access

 

[David C. Holley]

Yes, if the values in the spreadsheet can be matched to products in the
database for example by using a Product Number. Its a simple matter to loop
through the rows in the spreadsheet and update the values in the database.

For the future though, whoever created the spreadsheet should be using the
database as it will eliminate the need to update the values. If the
spreadsheet was created by pulling data out of another system, your database
should pull the values from there.

David

 

[Jeff Boyce]

Simon

It sounds like you are trying to replace existing prices with new, updated
prices.

If you keep historical information about "orders" (including products),
there's a chance that you could lose "former pricing" information when you
simply update a product's price.

How depends on what, and you haven't described what use you intend to make
of the product/price data...

More info, please...

Regards

Jeff Boyce
Microsoft Access MVP

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