transfer a named range from excel to access...help

[djsmarties]

Hi, I want to import a range in an excel worksheet into access.
In access i use the transferspreadsheet action to do this. With a range defined as i.e. a1:c3 it works fine, but when i use a range name it doesn't work and i get an error message "can't find object..."

here is the code i use:

DoCmd.TransferSpreadsheet acImport, 8, "product_detail", "p:/project/country_input_template.xls", True, "product_detail"

The range in excel are columns. the reason i use a range name is because i don't import every column, for example i would not want to import colums c, f, and i. "product_detail" is the name of the range.

What's wrong with the code? I can't get it to work, i tried a lot of different things, but i always get the same error message.
Maybe it works better if i try to export from excel instead of importing using access code?
Thanks for your help.

 

[klb]

Try using instead of /

 

[DonkeyOte]

djsmarties - I take it that my earlier suggesiton wasn't up to scratch?

 

[djsmarties]

lasw10, i was actually afraid of hearing your suggestion, because thats exactly what i didn't want to do...studpid access. nobody else replied so i started another cry for help thanks anyway.
oh, i asked some other people, and you seem to be right, copy-pasting seems to be the only possibility...

 

[DonkeyOte]

the only other thing is that of course you specify the range on the sheet...so in theory you could have one VERY large worksheet as opposed to numerous smaller ones...then copy each range into a different Access Table...

Guess it depends on the volume of data you have...

 

[klb]

dj:

I tried your code substituting my own file path (and the correct characters instead of /) and it worked fine the second time.

The first time I tried it I received the same error as you did but then I realized that the file I was trying to import from was still open. When I closed the xls file, the code worked just fine.