import access dates into xl "calendar"

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import access dates into xl calendar

Hello, hopefully you can help me out with a concept I'm struggling with,

I've got a Tasks table in Access with 3 fields: task names, start dates, and
due dates. I'd like to export this data into Excel so that the excel columns
are days of the month (1-31 columns). The rows would contain the Tasks data,
such that a task whose start date falls on the 5th of the month and whose due
date falls on the 31st of the month would fill a unique color to cells 5-31.
Essentially, this would be like a task calendar.

Is this at all possible? any help much appreciated, thanks
Dave

 

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I experimented with this and it seems to work. If someone doesn't post
anything else maybe you can use it:


Sub getData()

Dim cn As New ADODB.Connection
Dim cmd As New ADODB.Command
Dim rs As New ADODB.Recordset

'connect to the database
cn.Open "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" _
& "Data Source='C:\Tasks.mdb'"

'select all tasks that start in july
cmd.ActiveConnection = cn
cmd.CommandText = "SELECT * FROM Tasks " & _
"WHERE Start Between " & _
"#7/1/2007# And #7/31/2007#"

Set rs = cmd.Execute

rs.MoveFirst

'color index
cl = 5

'starting row
i = 1

'color the cells
Do While Not rs.EOF

st = DatePart("d", rs.Fields("Start"))
due = DatePart("d", rs.Fields("Due"))

Sheets(1).Cells(i, st) = rs.Fields("Name")

For j = st To due
Sheets(1).Cells(i, j) = _
Sheets(1).Cells(i, j) & " " & j
Sheets(1).Cells(i, j).Interior.ColorIndex = cl
Next
rs.MoveNext

i = i + 1
cl = cl + 1

Loop

End Sub

 

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Thanks urkec, that code works great. I'll play around with it to get the look
I need.

cheers