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    Oxygen Potassium is offline Advanced Beginner
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    Renaming Table based on Query Results

    I have a query that returns a top value from a table column:


    Code:
    SELECT DISTINCT TOP 1 [MASTER DATA].Country
    FROM [MASTER DATA];
    I then uses that queries result to create a new table based on that result:
    Code:
    SELECT [MASTER DATA].* INTO Temp1
    FROM [MASTER DATA], Article_Country
    WHERE ((([MASTER DATA].Country)=[Article_Country].[Country]));
    Is there a way to systematically name the Temp1 table as the selected [Article_Country].[Country] result from the first query?

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    Yes but you'd have to be building the SQL in VBA. I'm curious why you want to create tables though, as it's not typically necessary. If it is:

    strCountry = DLookup(...)
    strSQL = "SELECT [MASTER DATA].* INTO " & strCountry & " FROM..."
    CurrentDb.Execute strSQL, dbFailOnError
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    Oxygen Potassium is offline Advanced Beginner
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    I guess you're right that a table does not necessarily need to be built for this, but I want to be able to export the results with the name equal to the query results

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    You can use OutputTo and control the name of the exported file.
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    Oxygen Potassium is offline Advanced Beginner
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    Great idea. I think I was just stuck on the process.

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    No problem, post back if you get stuck.
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    Oxygen Potassium is offline Advanced Beginner
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    This was my ending code if anyone is interested

    Code:
    Sub Rename_Tbl()
    
    DoCmd.OutputTo acOutputTable, "Temp1", acFormatXLSX, "C:\Users\UserID\Documents\" & DLookup("Country", "Article_Country") & ".xlsx"
    
    
    End Sub

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