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Old 11-10-2010, 05:18 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by PB3 View Post
Alright. A colleague of mine just emailed me a spreadsheet that he needs imported to access. I am usually good with this but I cannot get this to import correctly! I am f*cking loosing my mind!

Situation:
I copied and paste special his data onto an excel template I use. The query in access is set up to pull the data from this template and import it into access. I plug in all the data, hit the import button, and for some reason it will not pull in any numbers with letters next to it.

Example:

Here is the data. Try and picture it in an excel spreadsheet..

10000 12615
10000 12545
1502LO 56134
1504GR 56134

When I import the data into access this is what I get:

10000 12615
10000 12545
*BLANK*56134
*BLANK*56134

I have tried copying and paste special into a blank spread sheet then copying from there and paste special into my template and I still get blanks on numbers with letters next to them! It doesn't say "*BLANK*" as I described above. The cell is blank.HELP!!
If it's anything like SQL/mySQL, you need to specify that the left column is NVARCHAR, rather than NUMERIC
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