Format property

[Guest]

Is there any way to specify an optional part of the format?

e.g. I want six digit numbers to format as 99.99.99 and I want 8 digit
numbers to format as 99.99.99_99

I looked in Access help and could find no answer.

 

[Guest]

The format property can't do this natively, but you could wrap your control
source in the format function and wrap that in an IIF function. Something
like:

IIF(Len([MyField])=6, Format([MyField],"99.99.99"), Format([MyField],
"99.99.99_99")

This is untested, but it might give you the idea.

Barry