[AccessD] Format During Edit

Can you change the type of the underlying field to Currency rather than Double?

-- 
Stuart

On 21 Jul 2011 at 14:41, Rocky Smolin wrote:

> Dear List:
> 
> I have a text box formatted to Currency - 2 decimal places.  The text
> box is editable and since some decimal numbers do not have an exact
> equivalent in binary, when I click into the box to edit it, I get a
> long string of decimal numbers.
> 
> For example, if the box has $3.25, when I click into it to edit it it
> displays 3.24999992735684.
> 
> The user would like it not to do this for obvious reasons but I can't
> seem to force the behavior I want which would be to display 3.25 for
> editing. Tried the input mask but no cigar.
> 
> What trick am I missing?
> 
> MTIA
> 
> Rocky Smolin
> Beach Access Software
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