{"id":954,"date":"2012-08-14T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vm-officeblogs.cloudapp.net\/2012\/08\/14\/plug-into-your-data-connecting-excel-to-an-access-database\/"},"modified":"2022-08-16T14:05:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T21:05:33","slug":"plug-into-your-data-connecting-excel-to-an-access-database","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/blog\/2012\/08\/14\/plug-into-your-data-connecting-excel-to-an-access-database\/","title":{"rendered":"Plug into your data: Connecting Excel to an Access database"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Northwind Trading Company, a small wholesale food business, is doing quite well since they moved online.\u00a0Retail merchants across the country buy everything \u00a0from salmon to granola and have it shipped quickly\u00a0to their stores.<\/p>\n
Their customer information is stored in an Access database, and now, the marketing team needs a better way to view it.\u00a0In particular, they are interested in seeing where their customers reside so they can more effectively target their advertising dollars.<\/p>\n
Turn data into insights.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/h3>\n
Luckily, the same features that Excel provides for viewing and organizing information in a spreadsheet, such as filtering<\/span><\/span>, charting<\/a>, and grouping<\/a>, can be used to view and organize information in an Access database. But first you need to create the connection.<\/p>\n