I am trying to import a .csv file into Access 2000 but each time I do I get an _ImportErrors table full of Unparsable Record errors. I have checked the csv file and there is nothing untoward about the formatting of the particular rows and columns that Access errors on. I have read that it happens when access finds a character that it believes to be a delimited value, but this isn't the case with my data. The csv file contains 63 rows and 238 columns, is this too much for Access to handle, could that be why it errors ? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. cheers rich

I'm not an expert at Access, but I think you'll get this error if it has assumed a datatype which it cannot then apply to the whole file. It sounds like there is a numerical field in the first line, which has a subsequent text entry. Another common one is to have "YES" or "NO" or "TRUE" or "FALSE" in the first line, and then to subsequently have "MAYBE" - when Access has assumed that it is going to be a YES/NO field. [btw: 63 x 238 is of very little consequence to Access]