Importing a folders worth of excel work books into Acess

chrisbrocco

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Is there a way (using VBA) to point to a folder and make access import all the files (which will be excel files) into a access a table.

Prefrably beable to say which colums it imports
 
Hello,

I'm looking to utilize some of the within this thread.

Basically, I would like to code to import excel sheets from subfolders within a chosen directory. The excel workbooks have a "-" in the name so I would like to search using this.

Is this possible?

thanks in advance
 
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