Opening a report in excel

[momani]

Hello,

I want to add a button to a form to open a one of the reports in excel.
I am using Access 2003 and I am still a beginner in VBA, so could someone help me in writing the code of this button.

thanks in advance
Regards

[Dal Jeanis]

Here's the full code from behind a button called cmdPreviewReport that opens a report called "rpt_MyReport".

Private Sub cmdPreviewReport_Click()
On Error GoTo Err_cmdPreviewReport_Click
    Dim stDocName As String
    
    stDocName = "rpt_MyReport"
    DoCmd.OpenReport stDocName, acPreview
    
Exit_cmdPreviewReport_Click:
    Exit Sub
Err_cmdPreviewReport_Click:
    MsgBox Err.Description
    Resume Exit_cmdPreviewReport_Click
    
End Sub

The simplest possible command for this would be to hard-code the report name in the DoCmd like this

DoCmd.OpenReport  "rpt_MyReport", acPreview

Here's a page where you can read up and learn other parameters if you don't want to open in preview mode.
http://www.blueclaw-db.com/docmd_openreport.htm

[momani]

hello
thanks a lot for your help,actually I used the code you gave me to open a report and it works now, but I wonder if there is a way to open the report as MS EXCEL file directly

regards

[June7]

You can export report to Excel. Be aware, reports don't always export nicely. Better to export table or query. Look at DoCmd.TransferSpreadsheet method. Or open report in PrintPreview and right click > Export > Excel.

[momani]

thanks a lot this is what I need ^_^