Question

I am attempting to export a query from MS Access into MS Excel in a way that does not carry over the Sorting and Grouping. I have noticed this functionality is simply available by opening a query and clicking:

Tools –> Office Links –> Analyze it with Microsoft Office Excel

However, I don’t know how to get to this feature of MS Access programmatically using VBA.

I was going to try something like this:

 DoCmd.OpenQuery 'QueryName', acViewNormal, acReadOnly  DoCmd.AnalyseFeatureFunctionHere 

or

 DoCmd.OpenQuery 'QueryName', acViewNormal, acReadOnly  SysCmd(acAnalyseFeatureFunctionHere) 

or

 DoCmd.OpenQuery 'QueryName', acViewNormal, acReadOnly  Application.AnalyseFeatureFunctionHere 

Answer 1

It is possible to run menu commands with Run Command, for example to Output to Excel you could use:

DoCmd.RunCommand acCmdOutputToExcel 

However, it would be more usual to use OutputTo or TransferSpreadsheet.