format query expression from dialog as percent

[Terencetrent]

I am trying to format a query expression drawn from a dialog box as
percent.

The original statement to get the value for the query is as follows:

New%markup: [Forms]![Dialog Form]![NewMarkup]

The dialog box looks the values up from a table called NewMarkup. It
appears in the dialog box with a percent format. However, when I try
to call that value in my query it shows it as a decimal.

There is no option to format the field as currency.

I tried Format([Forms]![Dialog Form]![NewMarkup], "0.00%") and I get
the following error when executing...

"The expression is typed incorrectly, or it is too complex to be
evaluated. For example, a numeric expression may contain too many
complicated elements. Try simplifying the expression by assigning
parts of the expression to variables"

Please help.

Thanks!!

[MGFoster]

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Not quite sure what you want, but...

Format([Forms]![Dialog Form]![NewMarkup], "Percent")

will display the value in NewMarkup as a percent, as long as the value
in NewMarkup is a "correct" decimal value.

I hope you know that percent numbers are stored in tables as decimal
numbers. I.e.: 100% is stored as 1.00; 50.25% is stored as 0.5025;
etc. Therefore, to select records using a "percent" criteria you'd have
to indicate the percent value criteria as a decimal value. E.g.,
looking for records w/ 25%:

SELECT *
FROM table_name
WHERE Percent_Column = 0.25

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Terencetrent wrote:

I am trying to format a query expression drawn from a dialog box as
percent.

The original statement to get the value for the query is as follows:

New%markup: [Forms]![Dialog Form]![NewMarkup]

The dialog box looks the values up from a table called NewMarkup. It
appears in the dialog box with a percent format. However, when I try
to call that value in my query it shows it as a decimal.

There is no option to format the field as currency.

I tried Format([Forms]![Dialog Form]![NewMarkup], "0.00%") and I get
the following error when executing...

"The expression is typed incorrectly, or it is too complex to be
evaluated. For example, a numeric expression may contain too many
complicated elements. Try simplifying the expression by assigning
parts of the expression to variables"