Use Microsoft Access to Retrieve and Publish Data

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Suppose that you’re responsible for updating product information for your company’s sales force. Many of your suppliers have created sites on the World Wide Web for storing and updating information about their products. If you often jump to these Web sites, you can use Microsoft Access to store their hyperlink addresses in your database and to retrieve the product information you need. After you retrieve the latest information, you can convert it to Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) format and publish it to your company’s intranet or to the World Wide Web.

To complete the steps in this topic   you need to have Microsoft Office, Professional Edition or an individual copy of Microsoft Access installed.

Try it out   The example in this topic uses the Northwind database and other sample files included with Microsoft Access. You can use the procedures described in this topic on the Northwind database or on your own database.

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