Re: Could not find instalable ISAM

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That error happens when the driver does not exist. (text ODBC driver)

(see: ACC: "Couldn't Find Installable ISAM" Error Message: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;90111)

I think you are going to have to add the text driver to the installed driver set for ODBC in the Office setup. By default, it was
not included, as I remember the last time I did it.

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"Ray" <Ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:99746877-4F2E-47B1-8BF4-5C1177271511@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hello everyone, I seem to have an error that I can't get around. I'm trying
> to setup an ODBC data source to connect to a tab delimited file. I'll try
> and give the step by step of what I'm doing.
>
> I'm in administrative tools and I open odbc.
> I hit system DSN and hit add.
> I scroll down and hit microsoft text driver (txt,csv) and then type in the
> data source name and description (ray and test for now).
> I uncheck the use current directory and browse to the folder i need (c:\ray).
> Then i hit options and uncheck default.
> Then i hit define format.
> This is where i get the error message "Could not find instalable ISAM" in a
> box that has the title "ODBC text driver login failed."
> The box with the message pops up twice if i hit ok or cancel and then
> continues to the define text format window.
> I can select my file and if i hit guess, it comes up with "the database is
> not connected. guess failed."
>
> I've been able to follow this process on other machines without problems. I
> found some instructions that said uninstall and reinstall office. I tried
> that and nothing changed.
>
> The computer is windows xp pro sp 2, microsoft office xp (full install with
> everything i could check on from custom install method)
>
> Any help would be cool. Thanks.


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