Benson, William (GE Global Research, consultant)
Benson at ge.com
Sun Mar 18 15:15:44 CDT 2012
I want to say from the start, I worked around this problem by changing my Excel fields to text number format, but here goes, I still think this is a bug in Access. I set up a table called Equipment Model with 3 fields. The first was an autonumber, the next two were text. In Excel I had a table like this: Blank Field Equipment Code Equipment Model CIGS 85 CIGS 90 CIGS 130 CIGS 135 CIGS 140 CIGS 145 CIGS 150 CIGS 155 CIGS 160 Controller SunIQ Inverter 700kW Inverter 714.2kW Inverter 1MW Skid (STP) Transformer I copied the three columns from Excel and pasted into the Access table. Only the items up to and including the Equipment Model = 160 record got pasted. If it was a numerical field, I could understand it, but it is a text field. And it is a really small number of records, so I can hardly picture Access getting confused. So I went back to Excel and checked NumberFormat - it was General. (At this point I am thinking "So what, there are some text entries and besides, the field is set up as text in Access"). Anyway, I changed number format in Excel to Text, and retried. They all pasted that time. I put this down as learning to deal with Microsoft's craziness, but I am happy for someone to point out any improper expectation on my part as a user/developer!