Import data from Word

[Guest]

Can a table be imported from Word into Access

 

[John Nurick]

Yes, indirectly. It can be a laborious task because very many Word
tables contain multiple heading rows, subtotals and totals, merged
cells, and other clever stuff which does not fit in a table in a
relational database.

The general approach is

1) Make sure that each row of data is self-contained (i.e. does not
depend on any other row). For instance, you can't have something like
John Monday 5
Tuesday 6
Wednesday 8
Mary Monday 7
Tuesday 3
it has to be
John Monday 5
John Tuesday 6
John Wednesday 8
and so on.

2) Get rid of everything except a single row of field names and the
actual data.

3) Convert table to text, using tabs between columns.

4) Save the result to a .txt file.

5) Import into Access.