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Reply Wed 20 Feb 2008, 11:39Delegate Shelley said...

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Access importing of data.

This there a limit on the amount of records you can import from excel into access?

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Reply Sat 23 Feb 2008, 09:43Trainer Pete said...

RE: Access importing of data.

Hi Shelley, Thank you for your post, in answer to your question Access 2003 has limits but they should easily accommodate your Excel spreadsheet, the maximums are as follows:

Database file size: 2 GB less the space required for system objects.

Number of fields in a table: 255

Maximum table size: 2 GB less the space needed for the system objects,

Number of characters in a Text field: 255

Number of characters in a Memo field: 65,535

Number of characters in a record (fields): 2000 (excuding Memo and OLE objects.

Number of characters in a cell in the query design grid: 1024

Number of caracters in a text box in a form or report: 65,535

Number of nested levels: 7

I hope that helps, best regards Pete

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