What does it mean to "Apply Best Fit" to an Access table?

[Guest]

I linked an excel table to access. My instructions (from class) are to "Apply
Best Fit" to the newly created Access Table. What does this mean? Is this a
type of format?

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[Guest]

"Apply Best Fit" to the best of my knowledge has no precise technical
meaning; however, my guess is the instruction means to size text fields only
large enough to hold the longest string of data, size numeric fields to hold
the types of numbers to be expected, and define the fields as date where
appropriate. That would include selecting the date type most appropriate for
its use.