From my experience, you need to have a schema.ini file just because your
text file does not contain the standard value separator which is ";".

Then the text driver will use Your schema.ini file instead of what is
defined in your registry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Jet\4.0\Engi nes\Text

here is what I have with Windows XP Pro:
Format\Delimited(;)


I tried to insert Format=Delimited( )into my connexion string as you
did:
CxnFile.Open "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" & _
"Data Source=" & PathFile1 & ";" & _
"Extended Properties=""TEXT;HDR=NO;Format=Delimited(
);FIL=text;"""

but this raises an error: -2147217904

So let me know if you found, but programmatically creating a temporary
schame.ini file is not so difficult.

Regards,

Phil

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