MS Excel ODBC Setup

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MS Excel ODBC Setup

In this topic we provide basic documentation about how you quickly connect a PostgreSQL database to MS Excel via ODBC.

We provide no further support regarding this topic.

 

By creating an intermediate ODBC-driver the database becomes accessible to MS Excel. In orde to create such ODBC-driver you open your ODBC management system.

If there is a PostgreSQL ODBC Driver available, you can skip the following steps and open MS Excel.

If there is no PostgreSQL ODBC Driver available, you can create one by clicking "Add...".

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Choose PostgreSQL ODBC Driver (UNICODE) and click "Complete".

 

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Enter the database name, server, user and password and click "Save".

 

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Now a PostgreSQL ODBC Driver should be available and click "OK".

 

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Open MS Excel en go to: "Data > Get Data > Other > ODBC".

 

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Select the PostgreSQL ODBC Driver you created and click "OK".

The following navigator wil appear:

 

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Select the table you would like to transfer and click "Load".