I would like to take an existing text file (approx 4 megs in size) and manipulate it with VB or VBA (from inside Access in that case) and then ideally place it inside a table format, at the very least ...

I can't believe how difficult this seemingly simple task has turned out to be. I need to be able to get a date value stored in an Excel spreadsheet (say, C Temp\file.xls) in cell B28, and put that ...