Hi Folks,
I have two excel spreadsheets, Archive.xls and Current.xls. They are identical format - the difference being that the Archive.xls contains dates from before Jan 1 and the Current.xls contains only the records from Jan 1 forward. {I needed to separate them since I run reports only on current data and including all the earlier records chokes my computer. The records go back some twenty years, making for a very large data set.}
In Access, I've Linked these to two tables named tblArchive and tblCurrent. Then, I created a new table called tblAll and wrote two Append Queries to load tblArchive and tblCurrent into my tblAll. I ran both queries and verified that all records were brought in.
So far so good.
Here's my problem. Since the first two tables are linked, any updates to my Excel sheets are reflected in the tblCurrent and tblArchives; however, my tblAll does NOT get updated and I can't run the queries again since that would duplicate existing records.
Somehow I need to pass the updates from the linked tables to my tblAll but I can't figure out how to do that.
Any guidance or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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