Dave,

The maximum number of fields in a table in Access 2002 is 255.
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Earl Kiosterud
www.smokeylake.com

"Dave O" wrote in message
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One way- maybe? Import from Filemaker to MS Access, and then divvy up
the resulting "master" table into one table that has 256 columns and a
second table that holds the remaining columns.