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Exporting Data to Excel, PDF, and Word

Select an object in the Navigation Pane, choose a destination format from External Data, and send the result out for people who don't have Access installed.

Field Notes: Sending Data Back Out

Goal

$Export a table, query, form, or report to another file format.$

$Exporting a report to PDF is an especially common, polished way to share a finished, formatted document with someone who doesn't have Access installed at all.$

Select the object

Do this

In the Navigation Pane, click once on the table, query, form, or report you want to export.

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