[AccessD] Adding the same characters to each new entry

Hi Susan

I would position a locked textbox in front of the input textbox, both borderless, with a rectangle around. Then put AB into to first textbox.
When displayed elsewhere, set the Format to prefix with AB.

Of course, you can have BeforeUpdate code to run that prefixes with AB if not present but saving such fixed prefixes only leads to problems.

/gustav

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Fra: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Susan Harkins
Sendt: 12. november 2014 00:56
Til: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Emne: [AccessD] Adding the same characters to each new entry

I seem to remember an easy way to concatenate the same characters to each new input value. For instance, let's say I want the letters AB in front of each employee number. If I'm generating both, I can do it easily enough, but if the user is entering a number, I want the control to accept the number, but display the AB - without the user entering the AB.

I thought you could do this very easily, but I don't remember how.

Susan H.