Hi,
I've read a bit on exporting Access fields longer than 255 characters (Memo) into Excel, and the general concensus is that it cannot be done.
All I need to do is run a report, right click the report, and select Export from the menu.
However, if it can be done using a query, any assistance or pointing in the right direction will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks..
Chris
Hello,
I have an unbound form where the user enters feedback, usually > 255 chars. When they hit the "Submit" button, an append query adds this to a memo field on a table. A memo field should be able to hold 65,000 some characters however everything after 255 turns into a special character, mostly boxes. Any ideas on how to retain the text?
Thanks for any suggestions!
Stone
Hello,
In a form i have a field and i would like to test the field value character by character.
Ex : if the user typed ABCDE i want to detect the A as soon as the user typed A, etc..
I want to test each value of my field
A
AB
ABC
ABCD
and this before the user quit the field
I tried to to test with keydown event but the field value is null until user goes to the next field. i tried to concate each keycode but it's a little complexe if user press SUPPR, backtab, insert etc...
I want use this to do a search (like in listbox)
Thanks in advance for help.
VINCENT
I use a memo field in a form. This memo field is used to store "steps" for doing something.
To keep things neat, I use ENTER between the steps so there is a blank line between each. This looks good in the form, however... I export this information (from the table) to a CSV/text file to use online. My online script requires that each record occupy only one line. But, the exported file has separated the "steps" into multiple lines just as it appears on the form.
I would like to use the HTML tag <BR> to separate the line feeds in the CSV file. I can enter these in the FORM instead of pressing ENTER, but then the form looks bad - harder to read.
Is this possible to do with code or filters or ??
Thanks for the help!
Mike
I have a strange issue where im importing an excel using docmd.transferspreadsheet. I have a memo field which is importing fine and is not being truncated but I have another which is being truncated every time. The destination field is set to memo and the top cell in the excel is over 255 chars yet it still truncates. The other column does not truncate for some reason.
View 2 Replies View RelatedWhen exporting a report to Excel my Yes/No fields do not export. The Label nor the field itself exports. I am using the Table to create the report, not a query and sorting data within the report.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm relatively new to Access. I've created a database where we track product information and testing done on the products. I have the Product Code set up as a combo box with five other fields auto populating based on what is entered into the Product Code field. However, when I export the table or form to Excel, the Product Code changes to another number, which I think is an auto number but does not directly relate to the product entered (either one up or down from the product).
View 2 Replies View RelatedI haven't seen anyone run into this particular problem on this forum...
I'm importing data from an excel spreadsheet to an MS Access (2007) table. One of the fields in the table is a text memo field able to support more than 255 characters...
Issue:
The issue is that any cell in Excel that is greater than 255 characters is truncated when imported to MS Access even though the field is a memo field. There isn't any documentation on Microsoft's website about this and I don't see any way to work around it other than manually copying the data from excel to MS Access.
Anyone have any input on this matter?
Thanks in advance!
Two Solutions to address moving an Access Memo field into Excel when string has > 255 characters. All my 'reports' use Excel VBA (Access Reports are not used). The Excel reports can have 40,000 records. Speed to create the report can be an issue.
Describing 2 Solutions below to address moving Access memo fields with > 255 characters into Excel.After running this code
Code:
720 ObjXL.DisplayAlerts = False
ObjXL.Columns("X:X").Select
ObjXL.Selection.NumberFormat = "@" ' set column to Text
730 ObjXL.Worksheets(intWorksheetNum).Cells(intRowPos, 1).CopyFromRecordset rsNutsAndBolts
The Comments column are limited to 255 characters. So, the CopyFromRecordset (recordsetvariable) creates the 255 character limitation.
The reason? The 255 character limit is because CopyFromRecordset sutomatically uses the Characters property of the Range object. The 255 limit would not be there if the Cell Value property is used to assign the string to that cell.
Dim sRx as String ' String Prescription
sRx = "String with > 255 characters ... you fill in the rest ...."
Cells(1, 1).Value = sRx ' Cell's Value property assignment can be very large
Solution 1:
The record set is still in memory. By using a loop, a cursor can start with record 1 (memo column) and assign that value to the Excel row / column using the .value as shown above. Basically, this moves one memo field at a time, record by record. e.g. Read First recordset in Access, copy to variable, assign value to Excel row/column Then move next on each Access and Excel.
Solution 2:
An Access Memo filed [RxNotes] can have up to 750 characters. Cut it apart into three new fields that end up out in the very right Excel columns AA, AB, AC.
Note1=Mid([RxNotes],1,250)
Note2=Mid([RxNotes],251,250)
Note3=Mid([RxNotes],501,250)
Then using Excel Object - Concat the cells back cell by cell...
X2=CONCATENATE(AA2,AB2,AC2))
Then delete the columns AA, AB, AC to hide the evidence..Neither solution is all that elequent. Read about this and by golly, it made a difference
ConcatComments = "'" & CommentString
Before using the CopyFromRecordset be sure to add a single quote in front of the large string.
Turns out the interface between Access and Excel look for this to prepare Excel immediately for the string to be a string, not something else. Some of my strings had weird print characters that kind of looked like Japenese characters. It seemed random, it always happened if the string was 255 or more characters (ramdonly, not always). The single quote doesn't show up in Excel, but got rid of all the noise.
I actually have an ms access database with the following format(assuming)
title1title2title3title4title5title6
1a1b1c1d1e1f
2b2b2c2d2e2f
3a3b3c3d3e3f
4a4b4c4d4e4f
for each row in the ms access database above i need to retrieve an excel in the format below
title11a
title21b
title31c
title41d
title51e
title61f
title12a
title22b
title32c
title42d
title52e
title62f
and so on....
Where I can proceed, what tool can I use??
I am trying to export a data in Excel where a date field is in ascending order
But on displaying i am getting in ascending order but the display is somthing like this:
13/05/2013
13/05/2013
05/10/2013
05/10/2013
05/08/2013
05/08/2013
05/07/2013
05/07/2013
05/06/2013
05/03/2013
05/03/2013
05/02/2013
05/02/2013
30/04/2013
30/04/2013
Date order is misplaced...
When I export a report to Excel, a memmo field is truncated to 256 characters. If I export the query behind the report, the memmo field is exported correctly. Is there a way to export an Access 2003 report to Excel and maintain all of the data and report formating in memmo fields?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a query that is displaying exactly the correct results. However, when I export this to a text/tab delimited file (or even and XLS file) it truncates the memo field to 256 characters in the export file. I am sure it has something to do with this memo field being defined in part by a custom function. Below is the query and the function. The field in question is the "Formatting(First(description_text)) AS prod_Description" column. Any thoughts? Note: I know that if I don't perform the "First" on this memo field, during the group by, the query would truncate this to 256 characters becuase it has to be in the Group By clause. But by using the First function, this field does not need to be included in the group by and there for the query does not truncate it (even though the exporting does).
SELECT ProductList.cin_id AS prod_ID, Formatting([desc]) AS prod_Name, "" AS prod_Flag, "" AS prod_OverrideName, "" AS prod_SortName, Formatting(First(description_text)) AS prod_Description, "" AS prod_Bullets, ProductList.mfr AS prod_Mfr, "" AS prod_itemSort, "" AS prod_ProdGroup, "" AS prod_SubprodSequence, "" AS prod_Layout, "" AS prod_BaseProductID, "" AS prod_ItemSubheadAttr, "" AS prod_Keywords, "" AS prod_URL, "" AS prod_Type
FROM ProductList
GROUP BY ProductList.cin_id, Formatting([desc]), ProductList.mfr
HAVING (((ProductList.cin_id)<>''));
****
Public Function Formatting(Text As String) As String
Dim outString As String
outSring = ""
If Len(Text) > 0 Then
outString = Replace(Text, "<b>", "{")
outString = Replace(outString, "</b>", "}")
outString = Replace(outString, "<i>", "{i")
outString = Replace(outString, "</i>", "}")
outString = Replace(outString, "°", "°")
outString = Replace(outString, "™", "™")
outString = Replace(outString, "©", "©")
outString = Replace(outString, "'", "'")
outString = Replace(outString, "®", "®")
outString = Replace(outString, "<sub>", "{^/")
outString = Replace(outString, "</sub>", "^")
End If
Formatting = outString
End Function
I want some guidance in regards to how should I export access form as a report to excel. I already have fields with formulas in it and here I have fields where I have written down the numbers, so when these numbers get exported to excel. Excel will be populated with with these numbers and all the calculation will be automatically done.
I hope I am making sense here.
I have fields in access that should export through a button and populate on excel sheet.
is there any vb scripting for this, I rem seeing something in the same context few months back, but I can't seem to find it rite now.
Thanks in adv
Wondered if someone could help.
I am trying to Export an access report from an .mde (File>Export) and receive an error message "Overflow". the report itself is only 17 pages long.
Can anyone advice?
Thanks
Paul
Hi guys,
Im having a bit of trouble exporting some information to an excel file. ordinarily im sure the data would have been exported straight to an Excel Spreadsheet when the query is run.
However, it is exporting it as a generic file - that can then be opened with Excel (open with) and all the data is in there correct.
Im sure its something simple but i cant think what im missing.
Any help would be really appreciated !
Thanks
UdP
Good day to all:
I have created a form in access 2000 with last names, first names, and other information. I wish to export specific fields to excel by using a command button.
Any ideas on how to get started?
Many thanks in advance.
Regrds,
Dion
I'm trying to export some information out of Access into an excel spreadsheet in a paticular format. When I run the code it will give me the following error about every other time, Application-defined or object-defined error. I only happens on the one line of code and it will only happen every other time. If I click the "END" button then close the excel spreedsheet and re-run the code it will work. I am at a complete loss as to what is happening and any help would be greatly appreciated.
Dim rst As New ADODB.recordSet
Dim cnnLocal As ADODB.connection
Dim strSQL As String
Set cnnLocal = CurrentProject.connection
Dim objExcel As Object ' Excel application
Dim objBook As Object ' Excel workbook
Dim objSheet As Object ' Excel Worksheet
Dim i As Integer
Set objExcel = CreateObject("excel.application") 'Starts the Excel Session
Set objBook = objExcel.Workbooks.Open _
("CFile location")
Set objSheet = objBook.Worksheets.Item(1)
objExcel.Application.Visible = True
strSQL = "SQL Statement"
rst.Open strSQL, cnnLocal, adOpenKeyset, adLockPessimistic
i = 7
With rst
While Not .EOF
objExcel.Application.Cells(i, 1).Value = !QtyToBuild
objExcel.Application.Cells(i, 2).Value = !SegDescription
objExcel.Application.Cells(i, 7).Value = !DisplayTotal1 / !QtyToBuild
objExcel.Application.Cells(i, 8).Value = !DisplayTotal1
objExcel.Application.Cells(i, 9).Value = !InstallTotal1b
objExcel.Application.Cells(i, 10).Value = !other
objExcel.Application.Cells(i, 11).Value = "=SUM(H" & i & ":J" & i & ")"
.MoveNext
***This is the code that gives me the following error
***Application-defined or object-defined error
Range("B" & i & ":F" & i & "").Select
***
With Selection
.HorizontalAlignment = xlLeft
.VerticalAlignment = xlBottom
.WrapText = True
.Orientation = 0
.AddIndent = False
.IndentLevel = 0
.ShrinkToFit = False
'.ReadingOrder = xlContext
.MergeCells = False
End With
Selection.Merge
i = i + 1
Wend
.Close
End With
End Sub
Thank you for any help.
in the excel there is just 255 length how and where I can fix it?
View 1 Replies View RelatedHi,
I have a query embedded into a report... when i run the report it produces the data as it should and looks ok.... now i export that data to Excel and instead of displaying the data the query pulls off it just shows the query name instead.. if that makes sense ?
anyone know what i have done wrong ?
Access/Exel 2000
I've got a project that takes MS Access data and puts it into an Excel worksheet. I am interested in havig a dialog window open up that will allow me to specify the folder and Excel file name to save my data into. If anyone has a way of doing ths, I wold love to hear from them.
Incidentally, I do not want to use the TransferSpreadsheet function, since I am reporting data that would normally go into a report, and I am instead exporting my data into an Excel worksheet that looks like my report, with bolding, underlining, subtotals and totals.
Thanks in advance!
Hi there,
Once I have an Access report in the preview on the screen, I "export" it to Excel, using the built in Menu Symbol Option (analyse in Excel). It exports all the columns of the report perfectly, except for Dates. Here it doesn't just change the format - but shows ######## in the Excel column. When I click in the cell,it says "Negative Dates and Numbers are shown as ####". Any way I can stop this happening? I don't mind what format the date is in, in Excel, as long as it's readable!
Thanks a lot
Marion
Hi all, I use a d'base that exports a table via a query to Excel. Once the user hits the button to run this command it can take between 30 sec to 60 sec until the data is displayed in excel.
Does anyone know of anyway to speed this process up. Currently there are around 12,000 records with the table.
DoCmd.OutputTo acOutputQuery, "qryArchiveReport", acFormatXLS, "Archive.xls", True
thanks for looking:)
Hi all :)
I'm not sure if this is the right forum to post on but here goes,
I am exporting a query from access 2007 to excel 2007 and my yes / no columns are changing to true / false in excel is there any way to make these appear in excel as yes / no instead?
regards
Jackie :)
I've been searching for a good solution for this and can't find it. Hopefully something like this is possible.
I need to produce a report in excel from my database that needs to include information from 5 different tables. The relationship between two of these tables is a many-to-many relationship connected by a junction table. (I hope that is the right terminology)
My report needs to be in a certain format and needs to include all fields in the same order for every record.
The problem arises because of the many-to-many relationship. I have a tblOrder and a tblAgent linked by the junction table tblAgentOrder. For every order there can between 1 and four different agents associated with the order which are stored in the junction table. In addition these agents will be of different types 1-4.
Ex: One order could have an agent of type 1 and an agent of type 4. While another order may only have one agent of type 2.
I need the query to give me the result of OrderID, DateOpened, AgentType1, AgentType2, AgentType3, AgentType4. Regardless of if the order actually had an AgentType3 or 4 associated with it. In this case the fields would be blank.
Right now I'm getting:
OrderID, DateOpened, AgentType1
OrderID, DateOpened, AgentType2
I hope this makes sense, but let me know if I need to clarify anything.
Thanks in advance.
I have a form that allows users to specify the information they want to be displayed on a subform. I have used the below code (simpilified for example purposes) to create the SQL string and sent it to the subform for display. I would like to have an export to excel button to export the recordSource to a spredsheet. is this possible?
Me.frmsubClients.Form.RecordSource = "SELECT DISTINCT New_Client_Table.Account_Number" & BuildFilter
Thank you in advance.