Grabbing "last saved by" metadata from access '03 file to excel '03 in VBA

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Published on 2010-06-07T17:35:11Z Indexed on 2010/06/07 23:32 UTC
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So I am in Excel trying to read the last saved metadata from an Access database, but I cannot figure out how on earth to do this.

If I use environ$("username") it will give my the last saved information for the excel document where I am coding, not the access db that I want it to grab from. Excel has a built in function for grabbing username data, but I cannot find one for access.

How can I do this?! Any help is greatly appreciated!

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