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macro returns error "Method 'Open' of object '_Recordset' failed"

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    Question macro returns error "Method 'Open' of object '_Recordset' failed"

    Re: http://www.excelforum.com/excel-prog...ml#post2138532, this is *exactly* the issue that I have. I think Djvice was working with the same UPC db file that I dl from the web, too. I loaded the files in the zip on that thread and got the lookup macro to work fine.

    But then I tried with my data file. The dl data file "items.csv" has 1,048,571 rows of data. I renamed djvice.xls to mylookup.xls. I edited the macro to this
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    where items.csv is my data file. For the header, in the first three cells of the first row of this data file I have inserted "UPC", "size" and "description". When I run the macro I get this error message from MS VB:
    Run-time error '-2147467259 (80004005)':
    Method 'Open' of object '_Recordset' failed


    Help, please. TIA
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    Re: problem using Vlookup from another post here

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    Re: macro returns error "Method 'Open' of object '_Recordset' failed"

    Ok I changed the title. How's that look?

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    Re: macro returns error "Method 'Open' of object '_Recordset' failed"

    Can anyone help please?

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    Re: macro returns error "Method 'Open' of object '_Recordset' failed"

    Hi

    I could get it to work by enclosing the field names in square brackets:

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    Talking Re: macro returns error "Method 'Open' of object '_Recordset' failed"

    Works great! Richard you are wonderful. Thank you so much.

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