MS Access query returning Chinese characters - possible table corruption?

Question

I copied and pasted a new version of the data into my MS Access table and now I\'m getting weird characters in my queries. Essentially if I say:

SELECT a,          


        

Answer 1

After five months of no problems, I had this issue today on a group query which included a "Count" field, so the "DISTINCT" technique wouldn't work. What I did was wrap my LongText field around the offending field. In this table, all of the fields are ShortText except for "Description". So the field groups by CSTR([Description]) - and now it works fine! By the way - this came shortly after a MS Office 365 update!