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Using automation to open and manipulate Excel can be a challenge.<br>Can you provide the code you are using to write to the Excel file?<br>Just as importantly, when you finish writing to Excel, you need to make sure that you have cleared out all of the objects you may have created (ranges, sheets, workbooks, Excel) during your process. &nbsp;Failure to do so will generally result in rogue instances of Excel being open but only visible in the task manager.<br><br>
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Using automation to open and manipulate Excel can be a challenge.
Can you provide the code you are using to write to the Excel file?
Just as importantly, when you finish writing to Excel, you need to make sure that you have cleared out all of the objects you may have created (ranges, sheets, workbooks, Excel) during your process.  Failure to do so will generally result in rogue instances of Excel being open but only visible in the task manager.



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Jazz Marie Kaur

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Hi,<br><br>I have a reporting package which is written in MS Access.<br><br>Some of the reports need to be produced in Excel, so the Access database grabs the data it needs from SQL and then write the Excel document (They are all a bit quirky and have to be formatted a certain way so a DoCmd.OutPutTo won't work).<br><br>Some users are having issues where the document is created, the headers are there, the column headers are there, the page formatting has been done, but theres no data! &nbsp;Some of them can close the Access database, reopen it and then it will work, but others haven't been able to create these reports for weeks.<br><br>I've made sure they are all on the same versions of Windows and Office so am now stuck.<br><br>Any help would be appreciated!
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Hi,
I have a reporting package which is written in MS Access.
Some of the reports need to be produced in Excel, so the Access database grabs the data it needs from SQL and then write the Excel document (They are all a bit quirky and have to be formatted a certain way so a DoCmd.OutPutTo won't work).
Some users are having issues where the document is created, the headers are there, the column headers are there, the page formatting has been done, but theres no data!  Some of them can close the Access database, reopen it and then it will work, but others haven't been able to create these reports for weeks.
I've made sure they are all on the same versions of Windows and Office so am now stuck.
Any help would be appreciated!

Writing data from Access to Excel produces a blank document

Microsoft Access is a rapid application development (RAD) relational database tool. Access can be used for both desktop and web-based applications, and uses VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) as its coding language.

Microsoft Access

Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) enables building user-defined functions (UDFs), automating processes and accessing Windows API and other low-level functionality through dynamic-link libraries (DLLs). VBA is closely related to Visual Basic and uses the Visual Basic Runtime Library, but it can normally only run code within a host application rather than as a standalone program. It can, however, be used to control one application from another via OLE Automation. VBA is built into most Microsoft Office applications.

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Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Office is an integrated suite of applications that includes Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Visio and InfoPath, along with a number of tools to assist in making the individual components work together. Coding within and between the projects is done in Visual Basic for Applications, known as VBA.