QueryTable Members (Excel)

Represents a worksheet table built from data returned from an external data source, such as an SQL server or a Microsoft Access database.

Methods

Name	Description
CancelRefresh	Cancels all background queries for the specified query table. Use the Refreshing property to determine whether a background query is currently in progress.
Delete	Deletes the object.
Refresh	Updates an external data range (QueryTable).
ResetTimer	Resets the refresh timer for the specified query table or PivotTable report to the last interval you set using the RefreshPeriod property.
SaveAsODC	Saves the QueryTable cache source as an Microsoft Office Data Connection file.

Properties

Name	Description
AdjustColumnWidth	True if the column widths are automatically adjusted for the best fit each time you refresh the specified query table. False if the column widths are not automatically adjusted with each refresh. The default value is True. Read/write Boolean.
Application	When used without an object qualifier, this property returns an Application object that represents the Microsoft Excel application. When used with an object qualifier, this property returns an Application object that represents the creator of the specified object (you can use this property with an OLE Automation object to return the application of that object). Read-only.
BackgroundQuery	True if queries for the query table are performed asynchronously (in the background). Read/write Boolean.
CommandText	Returns or sets the command string for the specified data source. Read/write Variant.
CommandType	Returns or sets one of the XlCmdType constants listed in the following table in the remarks section. The constant that is returned or set describes the value of the CommandText property. The default value is xlCmdSQL. Read/write XlCmdType.
Connection	Returns or sets a string that contains one of the following: OLE DB settings that enable Microsoft Excel to connect to an OLE DB data source; ODBC settings that enable Microsoft Excel to connect to an ODBC data source; a URL that enables Microsoft Excel to connect to a Web data source; the path to and file name of a text file, or the path to and file name of a file that specifies a database or Web query. Read/write Variant.
Creator	Returns a 32-bit integer that indicates the application in which this object was created. Read-only Long.
Destination	Returns the cell in the upper-left corner of the query table destination range (the range where the resulting query table will be placed). The destination range must be on the worksheet that contains the QueryTable object. Read-only Range.
EditWebPage	Returns or sets the web page Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for a web query. Read/write Variant.
EnableEditing	True if the user can edit the specified query table. False if the user can only refresh the query table. Read/write Boolean.
EnableRefresh	True if the PivotTable cache or query table can be refreshed by the user. The default value is True. Read/write Boolean.
FetchedRowOverflow	True if the number of rows returned by the last use of the Refresh method is greater than the number of rows available on the worksheet. Read-only Boolean.
FieldNames	True if field names from the data source appear as column headings for the returned data. The default value is True. Read/write Boolean.
FillAdjacentFormulas	True if formulas to the right of the specified query table are automatically updated whenever the query table is refreshed. Read/write Boolean.
ListObject	Returns a ListObject object for the QueryTable object. Read-only ListObject object.
MaintainConnection	True if the connection to the specified data source is maintained after the refresh and until the workbook is closed. The default value is True. Read/write Boolean.
Name	Returns or sets a String value representing the name of the object.
Parameters	Returns a Parameters collection that represents the query table parameters. Read-only.
Parent	Returns the parent object for the specified object. Read-only.
PostText	Returns or sets the string used with the post method of inputting data into a Web server to return data from a Web query. Read/write String.
PreserveColumnInfo	True if column sorting, filtering, and layout information is preserved whenever a query table is refreshed. The default value is False. Read/write Boolean.
PreserveFormatting	True if any formatting common to the first five rows of data are applied to new rows of data in the query table. Unused cells aren’t formatted. The property is False if the last AutoFormat applied to the query table is applied to new rows of data. The default value is True.
QueryType	Indicates the type of query used by Microsoft Excel to populate the query table. Read-only XlQueryType.
Recordset	Returns or sets a Recordset object that’s used as the data source for the specified query table. Read/write.
Refreshing	True if there is a background query in progress for the specified query table. Read only Boolean.
RefreshOnFileOpen	True if the PivotTable cache or query table is automatically updated each time the workbook is opened. The default value is False. Read/write Boolean.
RefreshPeriod	Returns or sets the number of minutes between refreshes. Read/write Long.
RefreshStyle	Returns or sets the way rows on the specified worksheet are added or deleted to accommodate the number of rows in a recordset returned by a query. Read/write XlCellInsertionMode.
ResultRange	Returns a Range object that represents the area of the worksheet occupied by the specified query table. Read-only.
RobustConnect	Returns or sets how the PivotTable cache connects to its data source. Read/write XlRobustConnect.
RowNumbers	True if row numbers are added as the first column of the specified query table. Read/write Boolean.
SaveData	True if data for the QueryTable report is saved with the workbook. False if only the report definition is saved. Read/write Boolean.
SavePassword	True if password information in an ODBC connection string is saved with the specified query. False if the password is removed. Read/write Boolean.
Sort	Returns the sort criteria for the query table range. Read-only.
SourceConnectionFile	Returns or sets a String indicating the Microsoft Office Data Connection file or similar file that was used to create the QueryTable. Read/write.
SourceDataFile	Returns or sets a String value that indicates the source data file for a query table.
TextFileColumnDataTypes	Returns or sets an ordered array of constants that specify the data types applied to the corresponding columns in the text file that you’re importing into a query table. The default constant for each column is xlGeneral. Read/write Variant.
TextFileCommaDelimiter	True if the comma is the delimiter when you import a text file into a query table. False if you want to use some other character as the delimiter. The default value is False. Read/write Boolean.
TextFileConsecutiveDelimiter	True if consecutive delimiters are treated as a single delimiter when you import a text file into a query table. The default value is False. Read/write Boolean.
TextFileDecimalSeparator	Returns or sets the decimal separator character that Microsoft Excel uses when you import a text file into a query table. The default is the system decimal separator character. Read/write String.
TextFileFixedColumnWidths	Returns or sets an array of integers that correspond to the widths of the columns (in characters) in the text file that you’re importing into a query table. Valid widths are from 1 through 32767 characters. Read/write Variant.
TextFileOtherDelimiter	Returns or sets the character used as the delimiter when you import a text file into a query table. The default value is null. Read/write String.
TextFileParseType	Returns or sets the column format for the data in the text file that you’re importing into a query table. Read/write XlTextParsingType.
TextFilePlatform	Returns or sets the origin of the text file you’re importing into the query table. This property determines which code page is used during the data import. Read/write XlPlatform.
TextFilePromptOnRefresh	True if you want to specify the name of the imported text file each time the query table is refreshed. The Import Text File dialog box allows you to specify the path and file name. The default value is False. Read/write Boolean.
TextFileSemicolonDelimiter	True if the semicolon is the delimiter when you import a text file into a query table, and if the value of the TextFileParseType property is xlDelimited. The default value is False. Read/write Boolean.
TextFileSpaceDelimiter	True if the space character is the delimiter when you import a text file into a query table. The default value is False. Read/write Boolean.
TextFileStartRow	Returns or sets the row number at which text parsing will begin when you import a text file into a query table. Valid values are integers from 1 through 32767. The default value is 1. Read/write Long.
TextFileTabDelimiter	True if the tab character is the delimiter when you import a text file into a query table. The default value is False. Read/write Boolean.
TextFileTextQualifier	Returns or sets the text qualifier when you import a text file into a query table. The text qualifier specifies that the enclosed data is in text format. Read/write XlTextQualifier.
TextFileThousandsSeparator	Returns or sets the thousands separator character thatMicrosoft Excel uses when you import a text file into a query table. The default is the system thousands separator character. Read/write String.
TextFileTrailingMinusNumbers	True for Microsoft Excel to treat numbers imported as text that begin with a "-" symbol as a negative symbol. False for Excel to treat numbers imported as text that begin with a "-" symbol as text. Read/write Boolean.
TextFileVisualLayout	Returns or sets a XlTextVisualLayoutType enumeration that indicates whether the visual layout of the text being imported is left-to-right or right-to-left.
WebConsecutiveDelimitersAsOne	True if consecutive delimiters are treated as a single delimiter when you import data from HTML <PRE> tags in a Web page into a query table, and if the data is to be parsed into columns. False if you want to treat consecutive delimiters as multiple delimiters. The default value is True. Read/write Boolean.
WebDisableDateRecognition	True if data that resembles dates is parsed as text when you import a Web page into a query table. False if date recognition is used. The default value is False. Read/write Boolean.
WebDisableRedirections	True if Web query redirections are disabled for a QueryTable object. The default value is False. Read/write Boolean.
WebFormatting	Returns or sets a value that determines how much formatting from a Web page, if any, is applied when you import the page into a query table. Read/write XlWebFormatting.
WebPreFormattedTextToColumns	Returns or sets whether data contained within HTML <PRE> tags in the Web page is parsed into columns when you import the page into a query table. The default is True. Read/write Boolean.
WebSelectionType	Returns or sets a value that determines whether an entire Web page, all tables on the Web page, or only specific tables on the Web page are imported into a query table. Read/write XlWebSelectionType .
WebSingleBlockTextImport	True if data from the HTML <PRE> tags in the specified Web page is processed all at once when you import the page into a query table. False if the data is imported in blocks of contiguous rows so that header rows will be recognized as such. The default value is False. Read/write Boolean.
WebTables	Returns or sets a comma-delimited list of table names or table index numbers when you import a Web page into a query table. Read/write String.
WorkbookConnection	Returns the WorkbookConnection object that the query table uses. Read-only.

Events

Name	Description
AfterRefresh	Occurs after a query is completed or canceled.
BeforeRefresh	Occurs before any refreshes of the query table. This includes refreshes resulting from calling the Refresh method, from the user's actions in the product, and from opening the workbook containing the query table.