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    Access to Excel transferring multiple rows to single row

    I have (in Access 2002)

    Table 1 called SongTitles containing the fields SongTitleID and Song Title
    Table 2 called Writers containing the fields WriterID, WriterFirstName and WriterLastName
    Table 3, a junction table linking SongTitleID and WriterID both one to many from SongTitles and Writers to Table 3

    My simple query answer table gives me

    People Are Strange Alan Smith
    People Are Strange Billy Jones

    which is fine because I display this information on a form which only shows the title once

    HOWEVER

    A third party company would like me to send my data to them on an excel sheet in a format where the info is contained in a single row

    SongTitle; Writer 1 First Name; Writer 1 Last Name; Writer 2 First Name; Writer 1 Last Name

    It would come out as

    People Are Strange; Alan; Smith; Billy; Jones

    Can anyone please tell me if there a way of creating a new answer table in this format for exporting the data into excel.

    Help very gratefully appreciated



    peter

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    Solution looks good, me less so

    Thanks for the swift reply. It looks as though it should do what I want. I tried to keep my intial foray as simple as possible. (Only once I knew it worked I would start being a clever sod). Novice at VBA, rusty at SQL but usually get there.

    I followed instructions and created a new Module which I called ConcatRelated. Ran Compile DatabaseName in Debug (which didn't do anything visible but nor did it report a bug and Compile DatabaseName is now greyed out).

    Created a simple query in SQL copying your template and ran

    SELECT SongTitle, ConcatRelated("WriterLastName","Writers", "SongTitleID = " & [SongTitleID])
    FROM SongTitles;

    Received message "Undefined function 'ConcatRelated' in Expression"

    Module is in there and I haven't modified a single character so surely the function should be recognised even if I still have to fiddle around with the query to get it to work. I've plainly missed some mindnumbingly obvious step and would be grateful if you could point it out for me.

    Thanks peter

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    Rename the ConcatRelated module basConcat and see what happens. The module must not be the same name as the function.

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    That works thanks, need to spend some time on the SQL to make sure produces the right answer.

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    That's great! Are you ready to use the Solved thread tool yet?

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    I'd prefer to resolve when I've actually succeeded in running the query. I'm trying to fit this into regular working day and have left my SQL bible at home so enjoying reading syntax error messages as a distraction from day job. I anticipate I will post resolved within 24 hours at most. Your help has been much appreciated.

    Peter

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    OK I've created the SQL that gives me SongTitle in Field 1 and Writer1, Writer2 in field two (separated by comma) as per the example given.

    Ideally I'd like to put Writer1 and Writer2 in their own fields. I can do this by exporting to a csv and then importing into Excel of course, but it would be neat to have Access do it. Am I asking too much?

    So far so excellent

    Thank you Peter

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    I don't think you even know how many fields will come back and Access does not care much for that. You could make a temporary table for the 1st results and then do some further analysis and split up the concantenated field I suppose.

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    I can't see how to mark this solved!

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