I don't really think the append portion is something I need to do. I think the thinking was if there was more than 1 of the original exported files to combine them and have one master file for that file set. But if a file has already been imported into Access and you later have an additional file you need to append to the table in Access. If you append to the file and then try to import, it's not going to play nice because it will see duplicates. I should be able to set up an append to table update feature that would work for every additional file that's ever required. At least that's what I think. You have any thoughts and past experiences with this?