Importing or Linking Excel worksheet to Access as a table coming back with errors
I have a comma delimited txt and csv versions of a data set I am trying to either import or link in a MS-Access 2010 database. The data set has over 100,000 lines. This database was created in a pre-2003 version of Access but I have saved it to a 2010 version.
When I try to import the external data to the database, the 3rd field, FundCenter, does not copy over and I get NULL's at row 8550. I have tried both the txt and csv versions of the data set and get the same result. I have gone into the csv version and set the column to text without any success.
I am trying to set up a macro to import the data automatically but if I cannot get it to work manually the macro is a mute point.
I have attached the txt file. Can someone take a look and see what I need to do?
Thanks
Glen
FI-Data-Extract-Actuals-2015-GlenPCopy.t
When I try to import the external data to the database, the 3rd field, FundCenter, does not copy over and I get NULL's at row 8550. I have tried both the txt and csv versions of the data set and get the same result. I have gone into the csv version and set the column to text without any success.
I am trying to set up a macro to import the data automatically but if I cannot get it to work manually the macro is a mute point.
I have attached the txt file. Can someone take a look and see what I need to do?
Thanks
Glen
FI-Data-Extract-Actuals-2015-GlenPCopy.t
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I figured out your problem too. And you do NOT want to import the integers as double. You want to import them as text. They may look like numbers but they are text strings and importing them as double drops the leading zeros.
I answered your question 14 minutes after you posted it :) That wasn't the point though. I just wanted to make sure that you specify that the long numbers are text because if you specify they are numbers, leading zeros (if any) will be dropped. Numeric fields do not support leading zeros. Only text fields support leading zeros. In the US, we use 5 digit "numeric" zip codes but here in New England we understand that zip code can not be defined as numeric or our zip codes become 4 digits instead of 5. If you don't use a field for arithmetic, don't give it a numeric data type even if it only contains numbers.
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