Importing your Text Files Into Microsoft Access

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Most of us have documents spread over several type of files such as excel spreadsheet, text files, PDFs and more. Consolidating these files into an organized Microsoft Access Database may seem difficult at first, but I will show you its quite simple.

Firstly you will need to know where your text file is saved. Once this is done open up your access database. If you dont already have an access database open a blank database and save it onto your hard drive.

Once this is done look at the blank screen when the tables tab is clicked on. Right click on the blank screen and select import. Once this is done you will get a browse screen to select the file you want to import. Change the file type from access mdb to text file. Then the screen will show you all the text files that are available. Double click on the text file you wish to import.

Once this is done you will need to run through the wizard to determine the way you want the data from the text file to be organized. You will need to select things such as the delimiter (the character that will divide your columns), which fields you wish to import and the data types you want those fields to be. This is quite...

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