
You cannot append records to an existing table during an import operation. If your goal is to add records from one database to an existing table in another database, you should consider importing the records to a new table and then creating an append query. Another advantage of importing (compared to a copy-paste operation) is that you can choose to import the relationships between the tables along with the tables themselves. In other words, the fields and field properties are copied to the destination database, but not the data in the table. When you choose to import only the table definition, you get an empty table. You might want to copy the entire table or just the table definitions to avoid manually designing each of these tables. You might want to import data for example to create some tables that are similar to tables that exist in another database. During the import operation, you can choose the objects you want to copy, control how tables and queries are imported, specify whether relationships between tables should be imported, and so on. When you import from another database, Access creates a copy of the data in the destination database without altering the source. Understand importing and linking to data from another Access database
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This article explains how to import or link to data in another Access database.


Copying and pasting is the simplest method, but importing and linking offer you better control and flexibility over the data that you bring, and over how you bring that data into the destination database.

You can bring data from one Access database into another in many ways. Access for Microsoft 365 Access 2021 Access 2019 Access 2016 Access 2013 Access 2010 More.
