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how to trap a error returned by excel in access
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Two thoughts.
First, you might have better luck in the office VBA forum because people there are more likely to use Excel and VBA. Are you automating Excel? If not, you will have to.
Secondly, Why? Surely any calculation you are doing in Excel you can do in Access. The test in Access is likely far simpler. Even so, you may be able to find what data gives you #value (probably a null or zero length string somewhere) and test for it before you send the data to Excel.
First, you might have better luck in the office VBA forum because people there are more likely to use Excel and VBA. Are you automating Excel? If not, you will have to.
Secondly, Why? Surely any calculation you are doing in Excel you can do in Access. The test in Access is likely far simpler. Even so, you may be able to find what data gives you #value (probably a null or zero length string somewhere) and test for it before you send the data to Excel.
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Thanks for the reply...
Answer to your first question is: there is this Poisson formula available in Excel not available in Access.
Thats the reason I am using Excel.
And thanks for the tip thats exactly what I did and found that it worked perfectly.
Appreciate your patience.
Answer to your first question is: there is this Poisson formula available in Excel not available in Access.
Thats the reason I am using Excel.
And thanks for the tip thats exactly what I did and found that it worked perfectly.
Appreciate your patience.
Having just looked in Excel help, it looks like the funtion takes three parameters and returns a value.
In Access, you could do two things to avoid dumping to Excel.
Write your own function to do the same as Poisson. In my experience it is better to build a string for any arithmetic expression and use the eval function to evaluate it to lessen any floating point issues.
Alternately, you could set a reference to Excel in a module (tools references). Then you should be able to write your own wrapper function for the Excel function and use it in your query.
In Access, you could do two things to avoid dumping to Excel.
Write your own function to do the same as Poisson. In my experience it is better to build a string for any arithmetic expression and use the eval function to evaluate it to lessen any floating point issues.
Alternately, you could set a reference to Excel in a module (tools references). Then you should be able to write your own wrapper function for the Excel function and use it in your query.
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