Microsoft Access
Importing data exercise
Average difficulty
This Microsoft Access IMPORTING DATA exercise is provided to allow potential course delegates to assess their suitability for the Wise Owl BASIC QUERYING IN ACCESS course only, and may not be reproduced in whole or in part in any format without the prior written consent of Wise Owl.
Exercise: Countries and currencies import
A full answer to this exercise is provided as part of the training course!
| 1) | Download the files needed to start this exercise: exercise-704.zip (and click here if you experience any problems unzipping this file after downloading it). |
| 2) | Create a new Access database called Countries and Currencies (or if you prefer you can import data into an existing database). |
| 3) | Make any necessary changes to the worksheets in this Excel file so that they will both be importable (be careful to check there aren't any gaps ...). |
| 4) | Import the worksheet of Currencies from the above folder into your database: |
You should end up with 124 currencies
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| 5) | Link to the worksheet of Countries: |
You should end up with 192 countries
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| 6) | Check that your database window looks like this: |
We have imported one worksheet and linked to the other
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| 7) | Close down your database, saving any changes. |
Thank you for showing an interest in this Basic Querying in Access training course! As mentioned above, full answers to this and other exercises are provided on the course. On all Wise Owl scheduled courses delegates can take away these model answers (together with their own efforts!) on a free USB stick.
