On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:36:50 -0400, "Mark Kubicki"
wrote:

i have a field [SortOrder] which is
data type - number
field size - decimal
format - standard
precision - 8
decimal places - 2

however, whn in datasheet view, if if enter a numer (let's say; 150.10,
Access immediately changes it to 150.00

Sorry to say, i give up, could someone tell me what i am doing wrong?

You need to set the Scale to 2. The misleadingly-named Decimal Places property
only controls the display, not the storage. Precision 8, Scale 2 will allow
entries up to 999999.99; you will want Precision 10 if you want to get up into
the ten millions.
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John W. Vinson [MVP]