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Part V
Analyzing Data with Excel
FIGURE 33.4
The Choose Data Source dialog box.
FIGURE 33.5
The Create New Data Source dialog box.
1. Enter a descriptive name for the data source. For this example, use the name Budget Database.
2. Select a driver for the data source by selecting from the list of installed drivers. For this
example, choose Microsoft Access 12 Driver (*.mdb, *.accdb).
3. Click the Connect button to display another dialog box that asks for information specific to
the driver that you selected in Step 2. In this example, you need to click the Select button and
then locate the budget data.accdb file. Click OK to return to the previous dialog box and click
OK again to return to the Create New Data Source dialog box.
4. Select the default data table that you want to use. For this example, the database file contains a
single table named budget. If the database requires a password, you can also specify that the
password be saved with the data source definition.
5. When you’ve supplied all the information in the Create New Data Source dialog box, click
OK. You’re returned to the Choose Data Source dialog box, which now displays the data source
that you created.
You only have to go through these steps once for each data source. The next time that you
NOTE
need to access this data source, the Budget Database (and any other database sources that
you’ve defined) appears in the Choose Data Source dialog box.
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