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by lowercased 1777 days ago
Excel can connect to a Jet DB, IIRC. If it can connect, it could probably also recognize common patterns and create some common Jet/Access structure to replicate the Excel structure on the fly. Basically, transparently use Access-like structure as the original source.

Just thinking off the top of my head. But... if that would be useful/doable, they may have already done it.

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Excel is like IE6 - so entrenched that it will take a decade to disrupt. Why innovate when there's no market need?