Leveraging XP Excel , XML, and OPENXML for Data Imports If you deal with clients, then you've probably at some point or another dealt with importing "their" data. A lot of times, this data will come as a Microsoft Excel document. I've had my tricks in the past. Opening Excel in one window, and opening an Access database in another window (linked to SQL Server), I could copy and paste. But this was very, very manual. With the release of Excel XP, I have a new trick.