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Old May 25th, 2010, 08:17 PM posted to microsoft.public.access.tablesdbdesign
Jerry Whittle
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Default how to set a certain format

It looks like that job number has different 'parts' that have meaning. If so
you'd be much better of having them broken down into 3 or 4 different fields.
Then recombine them afterwards. Then you could use things like input masks
and validation rules to ensure that the data entered is most likely correct.
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"bhrosey via AccessMonster.com" wrote:

I have what I believe to be a very simple problem for all of you who know
Access better than me. I am using Access 2007 and have a field in my table
where an operator would enter a job number. I want to force them to use a
certain number/text format to insure continuity. Here is a sample of what
some of the job numbers could look like,
09-7654 P/1
10-9076 JD/2.3
09-3425 DS/10.2
10-2579 P/10.12

Thank you for the help. I already figured out how to make sure that caps get
used instead of lowercase.

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