ACC: "Too Many Memo or OLE Fields" Error Message
Article ID: 103186
Article Last Modified on 5/6/2003
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Access 1.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Access 1.1 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Access 2.0 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q103186
Moderate: Requires basic macro, coding, and interoperability skills.
SYMPTOMS
When you try to export a Microsoft Access table that contains more than one
memo field to Btrieve format, you may receive the following error message
Too many Memo or OLE fields
CAUSE
Microsoft Access follows the Xtrieve specification for writing to Btrieve
tables. This specification allows only one memo field, which must be the
leftmost field in the table.
RESOLUTION
Change the table so that it contains only one memo field by doing
either of the following:
- Change the data types of all but one memo field.
-or-
- Move the memo fields to other tables so that there is only one
memo field per table.
MORE INFORMATION
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of Microsoft; we make no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding this
product's performance or reliability.
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