External Data: Primary Key

The original data in the Excel spreadsheet did not have a unique number for each record. It is not indexed, yet. This step creates a Primary Key.

 

7. Try it: Create a Primary Key

The Import Wizard is on step 5.
There is a new First Column, ID.

What Do You See?
The Import Wizard offers three choices for the Primary Key:

Let Access add primary key

Choose my own primary key

No primary key.

 

Select an option: Let Access add primary key

 

Click Next. Keep going...

External Data ->Import & Link->Excel

Exam 77-885: Microsoft Access 2010

2. Building Tables

2.5. Import data from a single data file: Import into a New Table