Using Excel as front end to Access database (with VBA)

Question

I am building a small application for a friend and they\'d like to be able to use Excel as the front end. (the UI will basically be userforms in Excel). They have a bunch of dat

Answer 1

It Depends how much functionality you are expecting by Excel<->Acess solution. In many cases where you don't have budget to get a complete application solution, these little utilities does work. If the Scope of project is limited then I would go for this solution, because excel does give you flexibility to design spreadsheets as in accordance to your needs and then you may use those predesigned sheets for users to use. Designing a spreadsheet like form in Access is more time consuming and difficult and does requires some ActiveX. It object might not only handling data but presenting in spreadsheet like formates then this solution should works with limited scope.