Rita

Often, the safer approach to import is to import data into a "temporary"
table, one you reserve for importing the data to.

Then you can run a series of queries the parse that raw import data into the
proper, well-normalized Access tables.

The problem with a lot of raw import tab delimited text file "data" is that
it is NOT well-normalized. If you're going to get the best use of Access
features/functions, you need to feed it data it works with best.

Regards

Jeff Boyce
Microsoft Access MVP

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"Rita Brasher" wrote in message
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Office 2007, just upgraded from 2000 ( OMGOODNESS!! What a flippin'
NIGHTMARE!!)


I am simply trying to import a tab delimited text file into an existing
table in Access. In Office 2000, I was given an opportunity to change the
data type of columns to be imported during the import process itself. In
2007, I am not given an option and end up with import errors for every
single row of data (over 1.5 million rows) because it reads a text field
of numbers as a number datatype. I can find no documentation on how to
solve my problem as Microsoft only provides information for importing
Excel files. Having well over a million rows, I cannot maintain the data
in an Excel file.


Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

Rita Brasher
Project Engineer
FedEx Express


PS Here I thought I wasn't as productive as I could be because I was
behind on Office revisions. That was a joke!! Would maintaining a
semblance of similarity have been too much to ask??? If the simplest of
functions are going to all become difficult, I may have to go back to
2000.