Is there a way, either in a form or report, to modify the format of a text string within a field?
Basically, we are gathering text data using a memo field (due to the amount of data) and would like to highlight sections of the text by making it bold. It does appear that in Access a field is all or nothing in terms of formatting.
Can one put characters that would identify the start or end of such a string in the data itself?
Thanks.
Hi All,
I have 2 sets of fields, 1 for this week and 1 for last week.
I would like to change the background colour of this weeks fields to show either an increase (green) or a decrease (red) from last weeks figures.
Can anyone help me?
Thanks
Twin
I have 3 tables of data, where I want to cross reference information to produce exception reports.
The tables all have Employee number held within them, and these form the basis of my queries.
We want to be able to cross reference locally held staffing information with centrally held HR and payroll records.
The type of information we want to be able to check, is if the hours of the individual are the same in all 3 records, the grade they are being paid for, the cost centre, and that the names match.
Currently we run separate queries for all of these, and I want to be able to consolidate the exceptions in one report, to save looking at the same persons record more than once.
For example, if John Smith has a different name, grade and cost centre are all different - we may be accessing his record 6 times, once for each variance against payroll and HR records.
Is there a way that I can pull all this information together to speed up the reconciliation process?
I wanted to assign the field "Number of magazine" with special format based on date/time format but showing only year and month in the format: "yyyy-mm".
So in property of this field in format I put yyyy-mm and in input mask I type 0000-00;;-
I also created the form based on the table containing above field and I defined format and input mask for corresponding formant in the same way like at the table.
But if I try to type date for example 2014-01 in text box of the form it comes up with the full date 2014-01-01. Why does it do like this? What do I do incorrectly?
Have a continuous form with 2 date fields in each record .
If dateField1 is empty ,Then I want a way to make DateField2 Take its Place .
I know how to make things happen with conditional formatting on one field by UsingIsNull ,I have tried sending datefield2 to back.But cant work out how to bring it to front If DateField1 IsNull.
Hi,
I have this code which makes all the data displayed on the form in this respective field capital letters e.g John will be displayed as JOHN and saved as so.
However, what i want to do is only make the first letter as John not JOHN. How can I change the code?
Me.surname_forename = UCase(Me.surname_forename)
Thanks
I have changed the inputmask of a field based on an if statement. however i put / characters in place and it wont leave them there can anyone help.
Me.txtbox = "AAAAA/AAA/AA"
I want my PRODID (PK, AutoNumber) field to have "PROD-" before the number, i thought it could be done by seting format to "PROD-"# but that only displays it inside MS A, when i use sql queries through php it only retreives the number. How can i avheve this?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI saw a thread once that explained how to format a date or phone number field after you've entered the data, but I can't find it again.You do it so that you don't have the __/__/__ or the ___-___-____ pop up in the field and don't have to worry about inadvertently starting typing the data in the middle of the field instead of the beginning.Anybody know where that thread is at, or know how to do that?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a calc'd percentage field in my query. This is a multi user app and the problem is that is can (and does often) happen that the numerator information for my calc gets entered before the denominator data and therefore the calc'd field shows and as an error.
I attempted to use a simple IIF statement to input a message rater than the error code but now the field will not format to Percent. It worked, I got the message to display and it calc'd the records that had data, it just will not display in percent format. It does let me set the format to percent, it just doesn't display and does not allow the decimal places to be set.
This was the line:
CalcPercent:[Numerator]/[Denominator]
This is the new line:
NewCalcPercent:IIf([Denominator] = 0, "Message", [Numerator]/[ Denominator])
I've tried to search for an answer and I'm sure it is going to be something simple that I've overlooked.
Any thoughts?:confused:
I have two tables that I import that have both a date field and a time field formated as text. date field looks like yyyymmdd and time looks like hhmmss. I am using two append queries that combine the data into one table and I need the date and time fields to be date and time format respectively. When I run the query as is I get no values in either the date or the time field due to a data tyoe mismatch. My question is how do I convert the input table date and time text type fields to date and tie format for the append query.
Thanks for the help
Tony
Hello. I'm triyng to change every field format in a Form each time I jump from one field to another. I want it to get grey and bold when it got the focus
I managed it with a GetFocus and Lost Focus for each field but whena form has a lot of fields it gets "a lot" of programing.
Is there a way of doing it another way, for instance On current
Thanks
If I'm working strictly from SQL, is there a way to format a field as currency, standard number, etc. without using the format() function? Basically the equivalent of setting the format in the property sheet in design view, without going to design view.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a table that contains information along with a field named "Date Input" and then a calculated field called "Due NLT Date". New records are appended to this table daily. The calculated "Due NLT Date" field is simply "[Date Input]+5".
In some unforeseen circumstances the "Due NLT Date" field needs to be extended to 6 or 7 days from the "Date Input". I am trying to find a way adjust the number of days using a command button/VBA getting the desired number of days either from an input box or from a txt box on a form.
I have been playing with using SQL ALTER TABLE in VBA but can't get it to work.
I'd image it would look something like this but how to write it correctly:
RunSQL ALTER TABLE "table" FIELD "field" to calculated "[Date Input]+ & input box "Enter number of days""
I have a calculated field in my query that takes the difference between to incomes. I want to format this field to currency. How can this be done?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a field (date field) that when I try to imput data will tell me that that what is being imputted is not in the correct formate or to large for the field settings. It is in the right formate etc. Is the field size applicable to just that field or overall everything entered in that field in the whole database? It's a decient size data base and I'm wondering if everything in that field is over the size, but then how can that be?
Help!
Does anyone know how to change a field FORMAT default? I am creating lots of tables with lots of number format fields. I don't, however, want a zero default value (or any default value for that matter) for all of these fields. I can go in and delete them manually, but that seems like a backward way of doing things. Does anyone know how to elimate that default value from the format of a number field in general?
Thanks!
Carly
I need to show two decimal places on a form based on a recordset of a table that has a field - type = double, format = fixed, and decimal number = 2
I need to show 101.00 and 102.00 so if user insert a record, record would have a sequence id of 101.05.
How do I create that field by code? The table is part of a system loop that it changes everytime thats why I have to recreate the table again and again.
I can do the double, I cant do the fixed and decimal number.
Please please help.
Thanks.
NEVER MIND, I FIGURED IT OUT.
Instead of including it with the code, I tweaked how the form displays it.
Thanks.
Hi!
I have a table called myTable and it contains two fields Year and Month. Both are type of integer.
Now in my select statement, I like to combine these two fields in to one and name it as period and it will have the format, for example 200501, 200502, ..., 200512. How can I do that in Access query statement?
I know how to do this in SQL Server 2000. That is:
Select Convert(varchar(4), [Year]) + right('00' + cast([Month] as varchar(2)), 2) as Period from myTable
How can I do that in Access Query statement?
Please advise.
Aijun.
All,
I have a Postcode field in my table and I want to be able to check the data to make sure that it is a correct UK postcode.
Is there away that I can find out the format of the data, to be able to run a query against it, or is there a better way of doing it?
I need to account for all types of UK postcodes (A1 2BC, A12 3BC, AB12 3CD, WC2A 3BC). There are also foreign postcodes in this field.
Help appreciated!
First off a big thank you to this forum... have solved a lot of questions I have had and some I never knew I had. Keep in mind this is all from a non-programmer so my question(s) might not be technically sound.
The issue I have is I have built a database to track documents that we process. It is uses an autonumber and that has worked great. The issue is eventually this document gets processed in our accounting system and I want to retrieve data from there and add it to the document record.
I figured out how to like the ODBC database and that worked, but I get an expression error. The field in the ODBC database is text and in Access it is an Autonumber.
Is there a way to copy the autonumber field and change it to text property to align with the other database?
All help welcome and appreciated.
I have a query that calculates a sum like this:
Sum: [table1]![field1]*[table1]![field2]
I would like result to have 2 decimal places.
I tried to use formatnumber like this:
Formatnumber(Sum: [table1]![field1]*[table1]![field2];2)
But I get syntax error. please help with the correct formula.
I am using ODBC with oracle tables..
My table has columns startdate and end date which are of type varchar(backend tables)..but when i display it in form it should display it as mm/dd/yyyy format, i tried setting format property as Short date but that doesnt work as my form is based on a query.and all the more my table stores the date as yyyymmdd -19990110, this is the way its stored in table (in varchar) so how do i do this?
i also tried "to_date(substr(startdate,5,4),'mmdd')" --putting this in the query based on which the form loads but this doesnt work even..
i cannot run this query from access as it says undefined function to_date , but when i run this in Sqlplus it gives me the output but i m not able to get the year part...
So how do get the date field in form as mm/dd/yyyy?
Thanks very much in advance!!!
A report field data is sourced from a query which displays its values as a string eg "George Renee", however in the reports it displays data as a number eg 42. It is true that the query field obtains its data from a table which gets its data through lookup Wizard. I really want the report to display string type.
View 1 Replies View RelatedDesigning a table of companies.
Need a field containing the website adresse for each company.
MS-Access 2013 does not offer such a field format.
On a form I can create it, click on it and it will open the website.
But that way it opens the same website instead of different websites for different companies.
I tried the hyperlink format but it did not work.
we would like to enter text that is always in this format,2013 04 11 / 09:15...I have tried using the field as date, with the formatting of yyyy mm dd / hh:mm...but the records keep showing a data entry problems with this format.
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