.PLEASE FULLY READ THE SIDE-BAR BEFORE SUBMITTING A POST! SUBMISSION GUIDELINESFAQPROBLEM SOLVED?OPs can reply to any solutions with:This will award the user a and change the flair to SOLVED. TO APPLY CODE FORMATTING Use 4 spaces to start each lineYou can select code in your VBA window, press Tab, then copy and paste into your thread or comment. PROVIDE YOUR DATA!Include a or use the website to generate the reddit table markup from your spreadsheet. Recent ClippyPoint Milestones!Congratulations and thank you to these contributors DateUserCP1010050A community since March 11, 2009 Download the official to convert Excel cells into a table on reddit using. It is worth being familiar with Access. They are two different tools.
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Access is a database, used for manipulation of data. Excel is spreadsheet used for numerical analysis. There is a lot that both can do, but they each have their own specialist areas.
So it depends on what the task in hand is. You can think of it like this: You can knock a screw into a wall with a pliers, but a screwdriver is a better tool for that job. So if you have a lot of calculations to do, and most of your data is numerical, while you could do a lot of what you need with a database application, a spreadsheet is probably better, for example. The two applications can also work together and share data too. So sometimes you might even use elements of both. So the deciding factor is what is it that you want to do. If you know how to use both, then you are in a better place to decide what is best for your requirements.
They are two different tools.This. Great analogy as well.A personal example: A team at my company uses Access to do 100% of their reporting. My friend started with them and was having difficulty picking it up - Access is much harder to learn than excel after all. I volunteered to help. Not being an Access wizard, I dumped their data to Excel. It was less than 1000 rows. For the unaware, Access is intended for data sets multiple orders of magnitude large.
I showed her how to export, set up some stuff in Excel, and bam - problem solved. Excel was the correct tool for the job due to the small size of the data set (and variability of requests, but that's another story). I'm not a big time content hound as I enjoy torturing myself with writing long articles all the time it seems. The marketing side of me says 'don't forget to sign up for my e-mail list!'
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Couple things that are confusing on your most recent blog post: 'I’m Unsure How Official This Ranking System Really Is'1) I was confused very early when you jumped from the 'Dashboard' (second tab) to the 'Data' (first tab) without any indication.2) When I download your workbook and use =RANK and select the first cell E2 (which is the first cell under the Rating header, why is it becoming @Rating? I searched your Name Manager, but that doesn't have that. Also, when I highlight the entire rating column it becomes Rating. How about powerpivot? It handles a lot more data and with calculated fields so it dont throttle on calculated columns? I have a 500 000 row, 15 column excel file. I even make some simple calculations in power query.
Then with pivot tables and its sorting functions Im pretty much all set. And you can create relationship's between tables in power pivot aswell, if needed.This is an interesting subject. I find that when ive got lots of data imported, excel is perfect.It's when there is any manual filling, especially someone who is not familiar with the document, that i want Access or the like that keeps my data intact.I also have a 2-300 row, 20 colunm table where a lot of info is manual. And since people thats not familiar with excel is filling some data I've made it so that adding rows, adding id, and a few more things comes from a simpler, more visual, 'not having to open excel' kind of external form.This table has 1/3 Manual fill, 1/3 lookups 1/3 calculations. This is probably where I should have had the whole thing in database. PowerPivot is amazing!
Is there anything you can do in Access that you can not do in excel?With enough hammering, you can make Excel do everything Access can do. You will need to use VBA or helper columns, but Excel can do it.Here are a few things that Access can do easier than Excel:.
Left/Right/Full Outer Joins. Data Input Forms. Composite Primary keys. Join multiple tables. Enforce data integrity. Changing primary keys. Enforce relational integrity.
SQL queries. Triggers. Access can store different data type objects (e.g. Documents). Multi-user management. Access has record locking whereas Excel does not.
One-to-many reports (e.g. Think of an Invoice with line items). Deal with many-to-many relationships (via associative entities)Edit: Added a few more.
Ah, the ol' Access vs Excel Discussion.Of course there are things you can do in each application that you can't do (easily or at all) in the other. Why else would Microsoft make them two different things?First, understand that Excel is a spreadsheet, and Access is primarily a database. What's the difference? In a spreadsheet, you have an open canvas of cells that you can randomly fill with values and formulas. In a database, data is organized into tables with pre-defined columns and practically unlimited rows.Do not mistake Access for a 'bigger spreadsheet'. It is not that; it is something else entirely.Moving on to functionality.
In a spreadsheet, a plethora of formulas are available, and they can refer to data anywhere with a simple pointer (cell reference). In a database, use of formulas is limited, and referring to data elsewhere requires a rather more complex way of connecting tables and filtering rows. In a spreadsheet, managing multiple canvasses ('tables', or sheets) of related data can be tricky. In a database, this is core functionality.
In a spreadsheet, it's kind of difficult to generate all new data from data you already have. In a database, generating new data from existing data is core functionality.Do I use Access? No, but I did when I found out my needs for functionality sometimes exceeded Excel's core capabilities. I use other databases now, because my needs for a database outgrew Access after a time. I use Excel too, all day every day. It's all about using the right tool for the job.Is it worth becoming familiar with?
Absolutely, but learn what it is and is not. Learning how to use a database is a great skill.
Like any tool, you also need to learn its intended purpose in order to get the most out of it.Do not pay attention to the Access-bashers that invariably come out from under their bridges in threads like this. They love to spread irrelevant distractions and lies.Ed: also see my comment. The OP there has a great use case for Access. It is absolutely worth learning.
Most of the time in Excel if you want to see your data in a different format you change the data itself. Access allows you to store that data once then view it or work with it in different ways.One barrier to using Access is that there is a good deal of setup for any project. With Excel it's perfectly normal to dress up a spreadsheet and send that directly to an untrained user, but in Access you have to build the user interface yourself. You don't want users mucking around in the internal guts of your datab.