getting an Unexpected error from external database driver (1) when importing data from excel to access

Question

I have a 2010 Excel file with a sheet that spans 34864 rows and 1387 columns. I\'m trying to import it into Access 2010 with

Answer 1

Along the lines of RHiggins answer:

In my case Jet OleDb.4.0 threw this error (oledbconnection.open()) because the name of a worksheet in a workbook (.xls) was too long.