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Export Access query result to HTML file using dynamic filename with date and time
Login to Access -> Enter Access SQL statement -> Set HTML filename template including date -> Export Access query to HTML using current date as file name
Choose Access and logon.
“Export From Query” for “HTML to Access“.
Select HTML file type.
1. Enter Access SQL query.
2. Set HTML file options. Enter filename template, including date, #yyyy# is for current year, #mm# month, #dd# day, #hh# hour, #mi# minute, #ss# second.
3. Set rows options.
4. Export Access query results to HTML file. Dynamically created HTML file name using present system time.
After exporting, you can view output HTML files.
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Access → HTML reference
Type mapping
| Value kind | in Access | in HTML |
|---|---|---|
| Int | Long Integer | <td>1234</td> |
| Bigint | Long Integer | <td>9007199254740993</td> |
| Decimal | Decimal | <td>1234.56</td> |
| Float | Double | <td>1.234e+10</td> |
| Text | Text(n) | <td>text</td> |
| Long text | Long Text | <td>multi-line text</td> (entities for & <) |
| Date | Date/Time | <td>2026-09-18</td> |
| Datetime | Date/Time | <td>2026-09-18 14:30:00</td> |
| Binary | OLE Object | not representable in a cell |
| Boolean | Yes/No | <td>true</td> |
| JSON | Long Text | <td>{"a":1}</td> (quotes escaped) |
Dialect differences
Access is a database server and HTML is a file format, so the gap is wider than a dialect difference – the rows below are where values and structure stop lining up.
| Property | in Access | in HTML |
|---|---|---|
| port | (file-based) | — |
| identifiers | [square brackets] | Attribute values in quotes; entities for reserved characters |
| row limit | SELECT TOP n | — |
| dates | Date/Time | Whatever text was rendered |
| long text | MEMO | — |
| binary | OLE Object | data: URIs inside src attributes |
| separator | — | Tags, not delimiters |
| encoding | — | Declared in a meta charset tag or the HTTP header |
| typing | — | None |
| shape | Tables of rows and columns | Free form; tables are row/column structures inside markup |
| ceiling | — | No formal limit |
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