Separating Numbers & Text Into 2 Columns
Dec 29, 2005
Hi!!
I have a quick question. I have a field that has information that looks like the below. I need it to be in 2 separate columns, but there is no space between the numbers and text otherwise I would know how to do this in excel. Anyone know how to do this is excel or access?
11000031377A & A AMERICAN DETECTIVE BUREAU
It should be separated as....
11000031377 A & A AMERICAN DETECTIVE BUREAU
Any and all help would be appreciated!!! Thanks!
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Jan 24, 2008
I have a field on my report that contains positive and negative numbers. I'm trying to find a way to Sum the column twice for two different fields (one for positive sum and the other negative) To make this easy let me give a small example with explanation of the issue I am having. 14 rows of data containing positive and negative numbers in a field called [Rooms]:
1) -1
2) 1
3) 1
4) 1
5) 1
6) 1
7) 1
8) 1
9) 1
10) 5
11) 1
12) -5
13) 1
14) 1
The positive numbers represent confirmations, the negative numbers represent cancellations. I need 2 fields to separate these. The first field's control source is Sum([Rooms]). No problem there. Access does the math and comes up with "8" confirmations which is correct. Then in the second (Cancellation field) I try something like Sum([Rooms]<0) to get the negative numbers which should add up to -7 (-1+-1+-5), but instead I get -3 because it's not summing the values, it's really returning the number of rows that has a negative number. Is there any way this can be done at the ControlSource Property of a report field? Or if I could do a "Where" clause in a ControlSource I could acheive it another way, but I don't that is possible. Is this just something I'm missing with the way I'm stucturing the ControlSource or is it not possible. Or alternatively, is there a way to separate it in the query and have a separate query field for positive and negative going into the report. I can do one or the other in the query but I can't seem to do both without showing values of each type in both query fields.
Thanks for your help!
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Feb 4, 2015
I have various columns of data, a mixture of text and numbers, which all have data in them, and a few columns that have numbers or text. When I copy'n'paste-append into the Access table, the text in the sparsely populated columns doesn't copy across but the numbers do.
It works if I import the spreadsheet from scratch (don't want to do that however, that data comes from somewhere else and would require modification to suit), or if I sort the data so that the text is at the top of the column, it works. Don't really want to do that either as there are 5 columns that this applies to and performing a 5 level sort shouldn't be necessary IMO. It seems that the paste is analysing the data and deeming that it should paste as a number even though the column contains text. There are only 120 rows of data, not a lot! I've tried redefining the field as Long Text (currently Short Text) but it doesn't make any difference.
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Oct 4, 2013
I have a table that has two columns "Nationality" and "Gender". I wanted to run a query that will Group the nationality and then split the gender column into two columns and after that it will count both gender columns for each nationality. When I posted this question in "Reports" section I got the suggestion to use the SELECT COUNT in SQL. It worked but only for nationality. I couldn't get it work for the Gender column. I searched alot and the only thing I got was the SQL function to split data from one column into two but that also didn't serve the purpose (check the link to see why: [URL]) At last, I went on to create a cross tab query. Selected Nationality as Row header, Gender as Column header and Customer ID as calculation point. And there I got the result I needed. The SQL Code looks like this:
Code:
TRANSFORM Count(Register.[Customer ID]) AS [CountOfCustomer ID]
SELECT Register.National, Count(Register.[Customer ID]) AS [Total Of Customer ID]
FROM Register
GROUP BY Register.National
PIVOT Register.P_Gender;
Crosstab query did the trick..
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Jul 18, 2013
I have a textbox on a form that i am pulling off of a table. the table stores the infor as listed below
customer ordernumber order description
Jeff 123 -abc
-def
-ghi
Bill 456 -ghy
-hig
but when i bring the field into a form it lists it out the field of order description as below in a textbox, i used textbox b/c the the text can be pretty long
-abc-def-ghi
how can i make it so that it separates out the listing as i have it on the table?
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How does one separate a text box and label in MS Access 2010? They seem to travel together side-by-side. I want to put one on top of the other.
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Given a datatable with 2 columns : ID & Data.
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(b) How to fill a specified range of continuous records - eg. records ID100, ID101, ID102 ... ID300 - with (a)?
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Mar 26, 2014
We have a database that we use to track the tablets in our organization, a combination of Apple, Android, and Windows.
We label them with a hostname depending on their branding. Example below.:
APPLE01
APPLE02
APPLE03
ANDROID01
ANDROID02
ANDROID03
WINDOWS01
WINDOWS02
In the database we use the field name HOSTNAME for these entries. When sorting the field, due to it being a text field, we get the traditional sort of
APPLE01
APPLE02
APPLE10
APPLE100
APPLE101
APPLE11
APPLE110
ANDROID01
ANDROID02
ANDROID10
ANDROID100
ANDROID101
ANDROID11
ANDROID110
We would like to have them show up as
APPLE01
APPLE02
APPLE10
APPLE11
APPLE100
APPLE101
APPLE110
ANDROID01
ANDROID02
ANDROID10
ANDROID11
ANDROID100
ANDROID101
ANDROID110
What is the best way to tackle this?
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Jun 14, 2006
I wondered if someone could help.
I am using the Val () Function to convert a text field to number within a query which still gives me a text output.
P.S I do not have permissions to change within table as using Access as a front end to SQL via link Tables.
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Oct 12, 2006
HI,
I have a field that contains mainly numbers, but the data type is set to Text because there are a few records where the numbers have a letter suffix.
Eg. Invoice numbers 100, 101, 102, 102A, 103 etc.
These suffixes are a result of poor data entry when the data was stored in Excel.
What I was to be able to do is sort this field and treat all entities as numbers. Currently when I sort it, it shows:
1
10
11
2
20
21
3
...etc
Is this possible, even though the data type is Text?
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Feb 17, 2005
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Dec 27, 2006
Ok, this one has me stumped.
I have a several fields on my form that are list boxes that must have text as the properties so I can populate the lookup data with things like" Severe rating = 7 points" and "Moderate rating = 3 points". I have another similar field where the choices are "High probability = 9 points" and "Low probability = 2 points" etc. A third field needs to show the total points (product) of the choices from the first two fields, i.e. 9 points x 2 points = 18 points. Then,
a fourth field needs to display where the answer falls in a grid, i.e. 1-14 points = Low, 15-29 points = medium, 30-49 points = high, etc.
How do I apply the calculations on the field choices if the field properties have to be text instead of number?
Thanks,
bugleboy:confused:
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Oct 13, 2005
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Hi,
I have a strange problem, I have created this query:
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It works, but it inserts Numbers into the Assigned_To column in the table WEEKONE. When I looked in the QPTActions database the values are text but the type of column was originally set to Number. I changed this to Text but its still inserting Number values into the destination table. How can I fix this?
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Hi,
I'm trying to search a field which has both names and numbers in it.
For purely text entries the wildcard search works just fine.... like this:
Like "*" & [What is Last Name?] & "*"
I can type in "Smi" and get all of the Smith, Smiths, etc.
However, when I try to use this for entries which include numbers (123), which should return "Smi123" I don't get any results at all.
Any suggestions? I can put in the SMI123 as straight text in the criteria box, and will get the appropriate record.... so I know it is there!
Thanks .....
Gordon
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Aug 3, 2006
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Hi,
Could you help me with the following.
Lets say I have table with one of the field header as 'notes'.
The notes is of type 'text'
In the notes column information like the following is typed out
Record 1 - MAX O.D 3.456" Min ID 1.2 and OAL 3.4"
or
Record 2 - MAX O/D 5.456" Min I.D 1.2" and Min Length 4.4 inches
Please note that as shown in the example there is no standard way of entering data. The only order that is followed is that the first numerical value corresponds to OD, 2nd corresponds to ID and 3rd corresponds to overall length.
I want to pull out the first numerical value (3.456 - first example, 5.456 -second example) and the last numerical value (3.4 -first example and 4.4 in second example). How would I be able to do this.
So the end result should be 2 more columns with max od as one and min length as the other.
Regards
George
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May 23, 2006
Hi,
I am using group options and they store a number instead of the vaules you typed in, is there anyway of making a group option that will store values and not numbers?
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