#Num! linked table

[Rpettis31]

I have the opposite issue from reading the posts. I have a linked table and
one of the rows contains part numbers which for the most part are alpha and
numeric (1a112c) etc. However there are a few part numbers are numeric. For
those items I am getting a #num! error. I have tried the macro in the
knowledge base but that does not work as it truncates the numeric part
numbers.

 

[Ken Snell [MVP]]

Is the linked table an EXCEL spreadsheet? If yes, see this article:
Avoid DataType Mismatch Errors when Importing Data from an EXCEL File or
when Linking to an EXCEL File
http://www.accessmvp.com/KDSnell/EXCEL_Import.htm#DataTypeErr

If it's not an EXCEL spreadsheet, tell us what the linked table is, and in
what type of a file is it located.