Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Access both store data used to write a financial report. However, Excel has more built-in options for quickly generating a report from a small amount of financial data.

How to Import an Excel Spreadsheet Into Access With a Macro. If you ever wanted to click a magic button and make complex business tasks happen automatically, macros can make that wish come true.

In Access, you can export data from Access in various formats such as Excel, Word, and SharePoint list. Exporting an Access database to Excel will export an object to a worksheet in an Excel file.

One option, that I briefly played with, is to take the Excel file into Access & generate reports from it there. This mostly works, although of course the validation is a bit sloppy.

The Microsoft Office Certification covers its core products: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and/or Access (PC only). During the exam, you must complete certain tasks in the application within a ...