IMAX did not work in my case and I had to get the value from the cell, not a NULL I did my own component because of some limitations, like datatypes of the cells. NET to read data from the fileor you could use third-party tools to do this. They usually provide some other solution, before touching registry, in a case if it exists. If Microsoft suggests that only work throug the registry, then it is true. Most likely it is inherited from there for the Excel. In Access database there is a limit of 255 for the string fields. NOTE: You still have the strangness where over-length fields are displayed as '#' but all appears good. Data truncated to 255 characters when copying TFS-Excel formīy right-clicking where you are pasting and selecting 'Paste Special', then selecting 'Text' (Note: I didn't have a text option, I selected 'Values and number formats') everything seems to be pasted fine.
To work around this problem, you must import the Excel spreadsheet to an Access table when the columns of the Excel spreadsheet contain more than 255 characters.ģ. The data in a linked Excel spreadsheet column is truncated to 255 characters in an Access database To work around this problem, you must import the Excel spreadsheet to an Access table when the columns of the Excel spreadsheet contain more than 255 characters. The data in a linked Excel spreadsheet column is truncated to 255 characters in an Access database
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To change the number of rows that the Excel ODBC driver scans to determine what type of data you have in your table, change the setting of the TypeGuessRows DWORD value.Ģ. Data truncated to 255 characters with Excel ODBC driver
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