CHAPTER 7
Linking to External Data

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IN THIS CHAPTER

• Examining the types of external data and methods for working with them
• Linking an Access database to external data
• Using linked tables
• Splitting an Access database

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In Chapter 6, you learned about the types of external data that you can import to and export from Access. You also learned when to import and export and when to link. This chapter describes the methods for using external data in Access through a live, updating link to the data.

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ON THE WEB

This chapter uses the Chapter07.accdb database, as well as several other files that you'll use for linking. If you haven't already downloaded these files onto your machine from this book's website, you'll need to do so now.

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Note that, because the point of this chapter is to show how Access works with external data, there are examples of external data that you need to copy to your machine. Unfortunately, when working with external data, Access requires an...