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September 12th, 2005, 03:13 PM
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can i concatenate in access
can I create a field in a table which pulls the data from two other fields in
the table (in the way that the concatenate function in Excel works)? 
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September 12th, 2005, 03:27 PM
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You shouldn't store a concatenated value in a table. Use a query or other
means to display two field concatenated together like: FullName: FirstName & " " & LastName or a control source of =[City] & ", " & [State] & " " & [Zip] -- Duane Hookom MS Access MVP -- "shazzer" wrote in message ... can I create a field in a table which pulls the data from two other fields in the table (in the way that the concatenate function in Excel works)?
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September 12th, 2005, 03:40 PM
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It's just that I want the amalgamation of the 2 fields to be my primary key.
Field 1 can have duplicates and field 2 can have duplicates but the 2 fields together would be unique. "Duane Hookom" wrote: You shouldn't store a concatenated value in a table. Use a query or other means to display two field concatenated together like: FullName: FirstName & " " & LastName or a control source of =[City] & ", " & [State] & " " & [Zip] -- Duane Hookom MS Access MVP -- "shazzer" wrote in message ... can I create a field in a table which pulls the data from two other fields in the table (in the way that the concatenate function in Excel works)?
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September 12th, 2005, 03:42 PM
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You can specify more than one field as the primary key (or unique index).
-- Duane Hookom MS Access MVP -- "shazzer" wrote in message ... It's just that I want the amalgamation of the 2 fields to be my primary key. Field 1 can have duplicates and field 2 can have duplicates but the 2 fields together would be unique. "Duane Hookom" wrote: You shouldn't store a concatenated value in a table. Use a query or other means to display two field concatenated together like: FullName: FirstName & " " & LastName or a control source of =[City] & ", " & [State] & " " & [Zip] -- Duane Hookom MS Access MVP -- "shazzer" wrote in message ... can I create a field in a table which pulls the data from two other fields in the table (in the way that the concatenate function in Excel works)?
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September 12th, 2005, 04:12 PM
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Duh! I didn't realise that. Thanks Duane.
"Duane Hookom" wrote: You can specify more than one field as the primary key (or unique index). -- Duane Hookom MS Access MVP -- "shazzer" wrote in message ... It's just that I want the amalgamation of the 2 fields to be my primary key. Field 1 can have duplicates and field 2 can have duplicates but the 2 fields together would be unique. "Duane Hookom" wrote: You shouldn't store a concatenated value in a table. Use a query or other means to display two field concatenated together like: FullName: FirstName & " " & LastName or a control source of =[City] & ", " & [State] & " " & [Zip] -- Duane Hookom MS Access MVP -- "shazzer" wrote in message ... can I create a field in a table which pulls the data from two other fields in the table (in the way that the concatenate function in Excel works)?
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January 4th, 2009, 12:23 PM
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can i concatenate in access
How do you do that? When I try the key just jumps from one field to the next.
TIA "shazzer" wrote: Duh! I didn't realise that. Thanks Duane. "Duane Hookom" wrote: You can specify more than one field as the primary key (or unique index). -- Duane Hookom MS Access MVP -- "shazzer" wrote in message ... It's just that I want the amalgamation of the 2 fields to be my primary key. Field 1 can have duplicates and field 2 can have duplicates but the 2 fields together would be unique. "Duane Hookom" wrote: You shouldn't store a concatenated value in a table. Use a query or other means to display two field concatenated together like: FullName: FirstName & " " & LastName or a control source of =[City] & ", " & [State] & " " & [Zip] -- Duane Hookom MS Access MVP -- "shazzer" wrote in message ... can I create a field in a table which pulls the data from two other fields in the table (in the way that the concatenate function in Excel works)?
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January 4th, 2009, 01:34 PM
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can i concatenate in access
While the table's open in Design view, hold down the Ctrl key while click on
the "gutter" to the left of each of the fields you want in the PK. That should highlight the fields. Once that's done, then click on the Key to set the primary key. The other option is to work through the Indexes dialogue. -- Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP http://I.Am/DougSteele (no private e-mails, please) "FBrnstrmr" wrote in message ... How do you do that? When I try the key just jumps from one field to the next. TIA "shazzer" wrote: Duh! I didn't realise that. Thanks Duane. "Duane Hookom" wrote: You can specify more than one field as the primary key (or unique index). -- Duane Hookom MS Access MVP -- "shazzer" wrote in message ... It's just that I want the amalgamation of the 2 fields to be my primary key. Field 1 can have duplicates and field 2 can have duplicates but the 2 fields together would be unique. "Duane Hookom" wrote: You shouldn't store a concatenated value in a table. Use a query or other means to display two field concatenated together like: FullName: FirstName & " " & LastName or a control source of =[City] & ", " & [State] & " " & [Zip] -- Duane Hookom MS Access MVP -- "shazzer" wrote in message ... can I create a field in a table which pulls the data from two other fields in the table (in the way that the concatenate function in Excel works)?
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