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hello professnols,

In my table I have, among other, two fileds "Activity" and "Accont ID". I
use form to fill the data in the table. If the field "activity " is either
"deposit" or withdraw" the field "Account ID" should read "NA" (data
type=text) but if the field "Activity" is "transfer" then the filed should
wait for the numeric data to be filled(data type=number). so my problem is
can i make a field to accept both type of data ( number and text) ?? please
help
Apr 20 '07 #1
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missinglinq
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You simply cannot have a table field that that is sometimes text and sometimes numerical! Having said that, why do ever want the AccountId to ever be numerical.? Things like AccountIDs, while they can digits (0-9) are usually text, simply because it's not something you're going to do calculations with.
Apr 20 '07 #2

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