Unique Identifier - Append Primary Key Record

Dec 9, 2014

I have a database in Excel that contains farmers who can be identified by a Unique identifier: MZ-01-0001. The registration details for these farmers are not always up to date. Now when I try to append the data for the farmer with MZ-01-0001; with the primary key set on the Unique identifier, Access does not want to do it since there is already a record in the system. When I remove the primary key it doubles the record, which is also not what I want. So I am wondering what I need to do to append the record while keeping the primary key intact.

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Hi,

I wonder if someone can help with what must be an easy solution to this problem.

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Ive tried exporting it all to excel, but as well as being cumbersome, something went wrong and so I'm back to square one.

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Hi,
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Dim response As Variant
Dim strFamID, strLName, strFName As String
Dim strFilter As String

If IsNull(Me!FamilyIDNo) Or IsNull(Me!strLastName) Or IsNull(Me!strFirstName) Then
Exit Function
End If

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End If
End If

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