Append or update?

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I'm pulling a bunch of information from Excel into an Access table, in order
to update certain fields of another Access table. I don't want to recreate
the whole table and then swap it out if I don't have to - I just want certain
fields updated.
An append query seems to be just for tacking on new records, and I don't
want that. But an update query is about doing a global change, and I don't
quite want that. Or does the link to the other table somehow go in the Update
To?
 
Assuming that both tables include a field or fields that uniquely identify a
record, you join them on that field or fields. Here's an example ...

UPDATE tblTarget INNER JOIN tblSource ON tblTarget.TargetID =
tblSource.SourceID SET tblTarget.TargetText = tblSource.SourceText;

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