Split delimited entries into new rows in Access

Question

So someone gave me a spreadsheet of orders, the unique value of each order is the PO, the person that gave me the spreadsheet is lazy and decided for orders with multiple PO

Answer 1

If I had to do it I would

• Import the raw data into a table named [TempTable].
• Copy [TempTable] to a new table named [ActualTable] using the "Structure Only" option.

Then, in a VBA routine I would

• Open two DAO recordsets, rstIn for [TempTable] and rstOut for [ActualTable]
• Loop through the rstIn recordset.
• Use the VBA Split() function to split the [PO] values on "/" into an array.
• For Each array item I would use rstOut.AddNew to write a record into [ActualTable]