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Substring command in access 2003

I want to write a query in access 2003 that will only return records from a field called "Comments', where the first 4 letters has the word Left. Can you help please ?
Sep 18 '06 #1
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hi

type:

as field:
instr(1,[Comments],"your word")

as criteria:

=1


:)
Sep 19 '06 #2

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