Try using the SDF designation. If field sizes are the same, you need to determine the starting positions of each field and conform your table to that format(with fillers for obvious blank spaces). After you read your table in, you can re-export it to a new table with revised field lengths and eliminate filler fields if you need to.

HTH,

Bill

>I have a very simple text file I wanted to import. It was tab delimited, but the import wizard said it wasn't. So I tried replacing the tabs with commas. The import wizard said it wasn't tab or comma delimited. I even tried enclosing the field values with "", but it didn't help. Finally, I replaced the commas with spaces so that the records were equal length. The wizard was able to tell where the fields should go. I was able to do all this because it was a very small file, but in general it seems like the import wizard is useless. What's going on?