Changing Table Doesn't Change Form?

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May

sorry to let you know you have to go to every form to
change it, this function will be added to Access 2003
 
I'm not sure I agree here. If the name of the field is the same and all you change
is the data type then the form should pick that up. Controls on forms don't really
have a DataType and so should be oblivious to the change. However; if the field had
an InputMask or Format property at the table level the control on the form would have
inherited those when you first created it. Now that you have gone into the table
and altered the InputMask and/or Format for the field, these changes are definitely
NOT automatically propagated to the control on the form.

This doesn't mean that you have to re-create the control, but you will have to
manually change the InputMask and/or Format properties.
 
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