Ms Access 2003 An Error Occurred Trying To Import
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Type, Import/Export under the File menu or just good old copy and paste, the mechanics are not complicated. We’d like to mention some of the common problems that happen during the import/export http://www.igetit.net/newsletters/Y05_02/ExcelToAccess.aspx process. Excel is very accommodating when it comes to data types. Numbers and dates can get converted to text fields if Excel fails to recognize them as a number or date. For instance, February 30 or Aplir 10 are not dates. If these are mistakenly entered as dates, Excel doesn’t give a warning. Spreadsheets that have been used for storing data over a long period of time typically have a wide variety of data ms access type errors; the letter O has been typed for the number 0 or units have been typed into a number field like ‘3 pieces’ instead of just 3. When you move data into a brand new table in Access, the wizard analyzes the data being imported. Some portion of the data is sampled to determine data type. The new table is constructed using this analysis. So, Access builds a table with a field called ms access 2003 Sales that it guesses is currency. It creates a field called CustomerName that it guesses is text. Then it looks at the field called InvoiceDate and notices February 30. It knows that February 30 is not a date and therefore assumes that the data is text. If one record is text, the whole field is text! Arrgghhh! Again, no warning message is issued as no problem has occurred as far as Excel and Access are concerned. You must check your new table in design view as soon as you have imported it. In the picture here, we can see that both InvoiceDate and CreditLimit have been changed to text fields. It is very unlikely that fields with those names are text! You must go back to the source Excel file and track down the offending entries. Once your data has been scrubbed (expect a half-day for every year of data entries in Excel… just a rule of thumb, but never underestimate the amount of time spent scrubbing bad data!), delete the table in Access, re-import the Excel data and recheck the table in design view. One other spectacular import problem that gives no warning: in all versions of Access, a field name that begins with a space is a huge No-No. If an Excel spreadsheet has been formatted by