# MS Access:  Deleting extranious field on text export

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 13, 2019, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ms-access-deleting-extranious-field-on-text-export/835481 "2019-06-13T16:26:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 13, 2019, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ms-access-deleting-extranious-field-on-text-export/835481/1 "2019-06-13T16:26:41Z")

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I export files from Access as fixed-format text. Sometimes my fingers get ahead of my brain, and I type in the length and starting position of a field that doesn’t exist. Of course I get an error. But there doesn’t seem to be any way of deleting the extraneous field (I’ve tried right-clicking, and I’ve tried deleting the values), and I have to cancel and type everything in again.

Is there a way to delete an extraneous field when exporting?