Now that's an excellent idea. I've toyed with Access and mysql like this a bit, but for some reason it didn't click that excel could be used in this way also. Thanks, Jeff On Tue, 19 Jun 2001 joel at luths.net wrote: > To not answer your question- > > You might also consider giving them (read-only) access to the MySQL database > via ODBC, that way Excel could pull data for processing as a database client. > Saves a few steps in downloading and importing delimited text files. I've only > done this a bit with Excel, but it works well for using Access as a front end > to MySQL. I assume PostgreSQL also has an ODBC driver. > > Quoting jeffr at odeon.net: > [snip]