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Linking a field as a memo field from Excel

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Sam92Legacy

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Sep 9, 2002
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I have a daily task that requires me to append a number of rows from a spreadsheet into an Access table. I linked the worksheet path and created an append query for it.

One of the fields in the spreadsheet routinely includes more than 255 characters, but Access still links it as a text field. The field I want to append to is a memo, but any record from the spreadsheet where the field is an excess of 255 caharacters will fail to append correctly; all fields for that record are appended but the memo field is set to null.

Is there any way to force Access to link that field as a memo rather than text field? I could just import the spreadsheet rather than link it, but that adds a bunch of steps I'd rather not deal with.

Thanks,

Sam Martin
 
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