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Export Access query to Excel using dynamic filename with current date

Want to export data from Access query result to Excel using current date as file name?

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Export Access query result to Excel file using dynamic filename with date and time

Login to Access -> Enter Access SQL statement -> Set Excel filename template including date -> Export Access query to Excel using current date as file name

Choose Access and logon.

“Export From Query” for “Excel to Access“.

Select Excel file type.

1. Enter Access SQL query.

2. Set Excel file options. Enter filename template, including date, #yyyy# is for current year, #mm# month, #dd# day, #hh# hour, #mi# minute, #ss# second.

3. Preview Excel.

4. Export Access query results to Excel file. Dynamically created Excel file name using present system time.

After exporting, you can view output Excel files.


More about Access to Excel converter

Access → EXCEL reference

Type mapping

Value kindin Accessin EXCEL
IntLong Integer1234 (a real numeric cell)
BigintLong Integer9007199254740993 (exact only while the cell stays text)
DecimalDecimal1234.56 (numeric cell, format controls the displayed decimals)
FloatDouble1.234E+10 (numeric cell)
TextText(n)text cell; leading zeros survive only if the column is text
Long textLong Texttext cell; wraps inside the cell rather than the row
DateDate/Timea serial number plus a date cell format
DatetimeDate/Timea serial number plus a date-time cell format
BinaryOLE Objectnot representable as data
BooleanYes/NoTRUE / FALSE (a real boolean cell)
JSONLong Texta text cell; the quotes are part of the value

Dialect differences

Access is a database server and EXCEL is a file format, so the gap is wider than a dialect difference - the rows below are where values and structure stop lining up.

Propertyin Accessin EXCEL
port(file-based)—
identifiers[square brackets]Not applicable; a cell holds exactly one value
row limitSELECT TOP n—
datesDate/TimeStored as a serial number; only the cell format makes it lo...
long textMEMO—
binaryOLE ObjectOnly as text or an embedded object, not as a data column
separator—Cells, not delimiters
encoding—UTF-8 internally, declared in the package
typing—Real cell types: text, number, date, boolean, error
shapeTables of rows and columnsMultiple sheets, each a flat grid
ceiling—1,048,576 rows x 16,384 columns per sheet; 255 sheets per w...

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