[AccessD] Search Memo field for number string

Sheri,

Actually, if you build each string you want to search for:

"123 4567"  (a)
"123.4567"  (b)
"123-4567"  (c)
"1234567"   (d)

And use a "Like a or like b or like c or like d", you can find 
exactly what you want.

As for bolding, there is no way of doing that without using a 3rd 
party tool like FMS's memo editing tool which would give you full RTF 
type capability within the memo field.  And then it would be a lot of 
coding to find the string and then bold it.

Robert


At 10:41 AM 10/31/2005, you wrote:
>Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:31:51 +0000
>From: "Mark A Matte" <markamatte at hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [AccessD] Search Memo field for number string
>To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
>Message-ID: <BAY103-F5DD33C5CA5EE2C0AE606ED26C0 at phx.gbl>
>Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed
>
>Sheri,
>
>I can't help with the Bold part...but on the search...I'm guessing you are
>looking at a phone number...or some other 2 part number sequence...either
>way...you can seperate your number into two pieces of criteria ( 2 fields on
>a form )...and the place something like:
>Like "*" & [Forms]![frmTest1]![NumPart1] & "*" &
>[Forms]![frmTest1]![NumPart2] & "*"
>
>in the MemoField Criteria or your query.  The problem with this...is that
>the query doesn't care if there is 1 or 1000 characters between the
>numbers...it still returns the records.
>
>Hope it gives some direction.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Mark A. Matte
> >From: "Sheri Hixson" <sdhi at kalamazoo.net>
> >Reply-To: Access Developers discussion and problem
> >solving<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> >To: <accessD at databaseadvisors.com>
> >Subject: [AccessD] Search Memo field for number string
> >Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:36:08 -0500
> >
> >I need to search a memo field for any string of any numbers sequenced as
> >follows,  ### #### or ###.#### or ###-#### or ####### . I also want to bold
> >the
> >number sequence found in each memo field. Anyone have any ideas on how to
> >setup
> >this query? Thanks for any help!
> >
> >
> >
> >Sheri