[mso] Re: Importing Excel to Access
- From: Graham Jones <agjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 17:27:32 +0100
Hi Glenda
When you Copy and Paste into Access, it doesn't recognise Excel column
breaks, tries to put everything into the first field of the first record in
Access, and does what you say is happening because the Excel data exceeds
the maximum of 255 characters limitation of the Data Type Text formatting.
Have you used the Import Table option from New? This should work if
everything else is the same as you imply.
You then select the existing table instead of the New table option (around
Step 4 of the Wizard). If Access doesn't like something, it should then
generate an Import Error table indicating what it is objecting to - e.g.
Duplicates/Null values in the Primary Key column.
Graham
-----Original Message-----
From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Glenda Wells
Sent: 16 August 2005 17:02
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] Importing Excel to Access
I'm trying to import a small excel worksheet to an existing table in Access.
All columns have the same names. All are formatted as text.
I can copy and paste the data to the existing Access table but when I
attempt to import I get the no help at all information message that an error
occurred and the data was not imported.
Any advice? /g
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