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I am opening an excel sheet with an OleDB connection and want to select (unnamed) columns, but not an entire range. The columns I want to select are:

B, F, M, O-X

I have tried a lot of ways to format the select and the closest I come to a result that actually passes through is this:

"SELECT TOP " + this.maximumRows.ToString() + " * FROM [Sheet1$B:B], [Sheet1$F:F], [Sheet1$M:M], [Sheet1$O:X]"

However what i get out of that is this (commas separate cells):

Data , [Sheet1$F:F] , [Sheet1$M:M] , [Sheet1$O:X] , F2 , F3 , etc...

Can anyone tell me how to form the SELECT statement so it takes the actual data instead of the rest of the query?

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I would rather try something like SELECT TOP X F2, F6 from [Sheet1] ?

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Sadly that give me an error. i tried [B], B, Sheet1.B, [Sheet1].B, [Sheet1.B] and Sheet1.[B] but i keep getting the following error "No value given for one or more required parameters."
Did you try with [F1], [F2] ... ? This is how Excel columns are shown in Access when no field names are provided.
Sadly [F1] or F1 doesnt work either, still giving the same error. This it the base of my query: "SELECT F1 (or [F1] doesnt work either) FROM [Sheet1$]"
Strange ! See stackoverflow.com/questions/3201231/… and... what if you remove the TOP clause ?
using SELECT 1 As Col, F2 As Cont ... just printed the strings Col and Cont. I used the TOP in previous tries where the DataAdapter did not stop retrieving rows

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