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    drunkenneo is offline Competent Performer
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    While Importing Change in data type


    Hi,

    please help me out:

    I have excel, which i want to import in Access, but i need data type to get changed as text when imported, how can i do that?

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    aytee111 is offline Competent At Times
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    When importing from Excel the data type is set by the first few lines on the Excel file, you cannot change it. Import the file into a temporary table, then run a query to add the records to another table which has all the correct data types.

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