Why am I getting Type conversion failure when using transfer text

[Liisa7298]

When using the transfer text code in Access to import a file to a table, it
is creating a seperate table import errors that only have the headers of my
data in it and they all say type conversion failure. Why is this?

 

[Jeff Boyce]

Are you saying that you are trying to import data that has a "header" row?
How would Access "know" that the first row is NOT data? Check the syntax on
that to see if there's a way to tell Access to disregard the first row.

As an alternative approach, consider linking to the data from within Access,
then using queries to parse that data into your more permanent (and
better-normalized) table structure.

Regards

Jeff Boyce
Microsoft Access MVP

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