"Sharon_wv" wrote in message
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I am designing a database to capture information that will be classified
into
two separate categories. I would like to autonumber each record by
category.
Is that possible?

No. Only one autonumber field per table, although, you can create your owb
autoincrement field.

Also, have a look at:

http://www.datastrat.com/Download/AlphaNumeric2K.zip

for some ideas.
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Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVP
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Co-author: "Access 2010 Solutions", published by Wiley


For example, I will likely have 2000 total records with
200 of those records in Category A and 1800 of the records in Category B.
The information will come to the data entry group in a random format. I
would like to prevent separating the information into the two categories
manually or need to enter them in two separate forms dependent on the
category.


Can I have MS Access autonumber them like this?:

A001 to A200 (for Category A) and then B001 to B1800 (for Category B) on
the
same data entry form?

If so, how would I go about doing that? Any assistance will certainly be
appreciated!!

Sharon