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.tab import quiting early

I am a novice MSAccess user trying to import a .tab file into Access.
The problem I am having is that the import is completing far too early
with what I know are too few records in the resulting table.
I think the problem might be a result of an old garbage character (the
..tab file is of old data) that might be inducing a ctrl break before
the import finishes.
Anyone know how to filter out data during an import? I know that I can
skip fields but beyond that my options seem quite limited.

Advance thanks for the help gurus...

Feb 3 '06 #1
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On 3 Feb 2006 14:43:16 -0800, fo******@gmail.com wrote:

Sometimes you can get lucky importing the file in Excel first.
Otherwise you'll have to write some code to process the file yourself.

-Tom.

I am a novice MSAccess user trying to import a .tab file into Access.
The problem I am having is that the import is completing far too early
with what I know are too few records in the resulting table.
I think the problem might be a result of an old garbage character (the
.tab file is of old data) that might be inducing a ctrl break before
the import finishes.
Anyone know how to filter out data during an import? I know that I can
skip fields but beyond that my options seem quite limited.

Advance thanks for the help gurus...


Feb 4 '06 #2

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