SQL Loader problem in loading MS Access Memo Data

HI guys!
I am having trouble loading my Access data into my Oracle Database.
I export first the data from Access to an Excel file and then I save as the Excel file as a CSV file.
Then by using SQL Loader I load the csv file to the Oracle.
load data
REPLACE
into table TBL1
fields terminated by ','
TRAILING NULLCOLS
NAME,
ID
NOTES CHAR(4000),
The problem is with the NOTES data. It is declared as Memo type in Access and I declared it as VARCHAR2(1000) in Oracle. If I don't have any carriage returns (Enter Key) in the data, the data is loaded successfully but when it has some carriage returns (Enter Key) the data is cut (continued to next line) and wrong data is being loaded...
BUt if I just copy-paste manually the data, it is loaded successfully..
How do I deal with this problem.I have over 20,000 data so I can't do copy-paste..
Appreciate any help..
Thanks!

Did you try to specify the "end of record " string (str <terminator string> function) , or Trimming whitespaces function ? Please refer to "Oracle Database utilities" for more information about it .

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FROMWEB_ID)

I apologize for not explaining how this was resolved. Sql Loader was working as it should.
The problem was due to new fields being added to the FoxPro table, along with the fromweb_id column, that I was not informed about. I was asked to add a column named fromweb_id to the oracle jobs table and to the sql-loader program. I was not told that there were other columns added at the same time. In the foxpro table, the fromweb_id column was the last column added.
The jobs.dat file contained data from all columns in the foxpro table, including all the new columns. I only added the "fromweb_id" to the control file, which is what I was asked to do. When it ran, it was getting values from one of the new columns and the values were being uploaded into the fromweb_id column in Oracle. It is that simple.
When I had checked the FoxPro table earlier, I did not pickup on the other new columns. I was focussing in on looking for values in the fromweb_id column. When back-tracing data in the jobs.dat file, I found a value in the fromweb_id column that matched a value in a differnt column (new column) in FoxPro. That is when I realized the other new columns. I instantly knew what the problem was.
Thanks for all the feedback. I'm sorry if this was an inconvenience to anyone. I'll try to dig a little deeper next time. Lessons learned...
regards,

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