Can I manage external connections from Access in Excel?

excelgal2016

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Hi,

I have one table in an Access DB and I use data from there for a table in Excel. Unfortunately the data includes some sensitive information (columns) which I want to leave out in that specific Excel file (I use the DB table for other purposes where I do need the sensitive data).

Is there a way to exclude specific columns when importing into Excel?

I have searched the internet but I didn't find a solution for this. Is the only solution to create a new table in the DB? (I would like to prevent this if possible). Also I don't want to just hide columns/tabs manually in Excel, as every average user would be able to un-hide them.

Thanks!
 
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