Microsoft introduced its Access database product about 20 years ago, and it remains popular due to its ability to link and import data from a variety of sources. Either through ODBC or native drivers, ...

Microsoft Access supports direct import of spreadsheet data from files you've created in Microsoft Excel or saved as XLS or XLSX files in another application capable of creating Excel-compatible ...

This method has one limitation: Excel won’t let you save a multisheet file to a single text file. When the Excel file contains multiple sheets, save each sheet as a separate text file and then import ...