Before You Begin: Get the Data

You can connect Excel to many other sources including an SQL Server, an SQL Analysis Service (such as the traffic data available from your commercial website.)

 

An XML file is data table of information. It is a table so there is a table structure (the fields and the relationships) as well as the data.

 

Before You Begin: Open Legs Eggs Pigs with Macros 2010.xlsm Macro-enabled spreadsheet. Download the tblCustomers.xml as well.

 

The example in the lesson uses a customer table that was created from a table in Access. 

 

1. Try This: Get External Data

Go to a blank sheet and select on Cell A1.

Go to Data ->Get External Data.

Click on From Other Sources.

Click on From XML Data Import.

 

This will Open or map an XML file into Excel.

Keep going...

Exam 77-888: Microsoft Excel Expert 2010

1. Sharing and Maintaining Workbooks

1.1. Apply workbook settings, properties, and data options: Import XML data

Data ->Get External Data->From Other Sources