I have an ASP.NET (VB) routine that imports a lot of data from an Excel

spreadsheet into a OleDbDataAdapter, and then into a database table.
The import
has been working fine until now, but my latest spreadsheet has a column

that can be either completely numeric or alphanumeric. As long as the
first row contains alphanumeric everything is fine, but the latest
spreadsheet I received contained completely numeric data in the first
10 rows. This caused some of the alphanumeric data to not be read in.
I have been using IMEX=1 in my connection string which fixed this type
of situation I had when I first started working on this project, but it



doesn't seem to be working on this particular field.


Any suggestions?


Thanks,
Amy Bolden

I was able to solve my problem by putting HDR=No in the connection
string. Then I insert the header text as the first record for the
field, thereby forcing Excel to make the field a string. This seems to
work well, although it is a little goofy.
Thanks,
Amy