Help with programming Access 2003

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I am doing a database of my families movie collection and I would like
to have a feature like an autonumber for sorting the movies in their
cases. I have the movies broken up into A(dult) and K(id) I would
like to have the autonumber have either the a for adult or k for kid
then the number. However I have no idea on how to achieve this....Any
assistance would be greatly appreciated and thank you in advance for
your help
 
I am doing a database of my families movie collection and I would like
to have a feature like an autonumber for sorting the movies in their
cases. I have the movies broken up into A(dult) and K(id) I would
like to have the autonumber have either the a for adult or k for kid
then the number. However I have no idea on how to achieve this....Any
assistance would be greatly appreciated and thank you in advance for
your help
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You can't change the way the autonumber field works, but then why not
use the first character from the adult/kid field and prefix it to the
autonumber field using a query? Let me know if you need more details.

-- James
 
You can't change the way the autonumber field works, but then why not
use the first character from the adult/kid field and prefix it to the
autonumber field using a query? Let me know if you need more details.

-- James
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I am not following you can you be more detailed please!!

Mark
 
I am doing a database of my families movie collection and I would like
to have a feature like an autonumber for sorting the movies in their
cases. I have the movies broken up into A(dult) and K(id) I would
like to have the autonumber have either the a for adult or k for kid
then the number. However I have no idea on how to achieve this....Any
assistance would be greatly appreciated and thank you in advance for
your help
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This is A Bad Idea.

Each field should be "atomic" - having one and only one value.
Autonumbers cannot contain text.
Your ID number should be just an ID number; the adult/kid attribute of a movie
is data, which should be in a separate field, not in the ID. You can use a
Query to select only adult movies, or only kid movies, or you can sort by the
adult/kid field to list the movies separately - but there is no benefit to
trying to jam the two disparate pieces of information into one field.

John W. Vinson [MVP]
 
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