This month's monster security patch for Office breaks Excel when it tries to open HTML files, and it seems unlikely Microsoft will fix the problem Excel users are reporting an odd bug in the way ...

How to Use SQL Statements in MS Excel. ... Open Microsoft Excel and then create a new workbook file or open an existing file to which you want to connect an external data source.

I would like the user to be able to click a button on the web page that will run a SQL query (canned report) and export the result data to an Excel spreadsheet. The data does not need to display ...