Hiding data with *

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I have a couple fields on a form that will store personal information and I
want it to display ********* instead of the actual information. So basically
as you type in the information, you would see *** but the real information is
being stored. Think of when you type in a password to log into your email, it
looks like **** as you type it in. These fields don't contain passwords, but
other sensitive information.
 
From Access Help...

Password


Setting the InputMask property to the word Password creates a password
entry text box. Any character typed in the text box is stored as the
character but is displayed as an asterisk (*).
 
One very small caution on the limitations of the password input mask: it does
not change the data stored, only how it is presented on a particular form
(otherwise, nobody could ever retrieve the data in a usable format elsewhere).

If you have any power users clever enough to link to your database from
another database, they could potentially open the table directly and see the
information in plain view.
 
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