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Expert: Richard Rost - 11/2/2009


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I am trying to merge 2 spreadsheets %26 followed the instructions on about.com.  Only 2 of my columns merged, the other columns (there are 10)were blank. The initial spreadsheet has been exported from Access, so 4 of the columns have the green corner marking (I forget what this is called). How can I merge these spreadsheets %26 get all of my data ?

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Well, I wouldn't try to merge them using Excel. I would merge them in Access. If you still have the original data in Access, then I would create a new table and then use an APPEND QUERY to merge all of the data together. It's much harder to merge data into an Excel spreadsheet. Access is a database and is designed for tasks like this.

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