Autonumber reset 4

[NFVA]

Hi there, I hope someone can help me out.

What I would like to do is keep my current database design, but I would like to delete all my entered data and start the database autonumber at 1. I have deleted the rows in my table, however the autonumber will not reset to 1.

Can someone please help me!!!!!

Thank you,

Kyle

 

[mac318]

Change the starting value of an incrementing AutoNumber field

For a new table that contains no records, you can change the starting value of an AutoNumber field that has its NewValues property set to Increment to a number other than 1. For a table that contains records, you can also use this procedure to change the next value assigned in an AutoNumber field to a new number.

1 Create a temporary table with just one field, a Number field; set its FieldSize property to Long Integer and give it the same name as the AutoNumber field in the table whose value you want to change.

How?

2 In Datasheet view, enter a value in the Number field of the temporary table that is 1 less than the starting value you want for the AutoNumber field. For example, if you want the AutoNumber field to start at 100, enter 99 in the Number field.
3 Create and run an append query to append the temporary table to the table whose AutoNumber value you want to change.

How?

Note If your original table has a primary key, you must temporarily remove the primary key before running the append query. Also, if your original table contains fields that have the Required property set to Yes, the Indexed property set to Yes (No Duplicates), or field and/or record ValidationRule property settings that prevent Null entries in fields, you must temporarily disable these settings.

4 Delete the temporary table.
5 Delete the record added by the append query.
6 If you had to disable property settings in step 3, return them to their original settings.

When you enter a record in the remaining table, Microsoft Access uses an AutoNumber field value 1 greater than the value you entered in the temporary table.

Note If you want to compact the database after changing the starting AutoNumber value, make sure to add at least one record to the table first. If you don't, when you compact the database, the AutoNumber value for the next record added will be reset to 1 more than the highest previous value. For example, if there were no records in the table when you reset the starting value, compacting would set the AutoNumber value for the next record added to 1; if there were records in the table when you reset the starting value and the highest previous value was 50, compacting would set the AutoNumber value for the next record added to 51.

 

[fredl]

Access keeps tabs on the records you delete that way there can never be a duplicate number.
Did you try and delete the autonumber field? then save the database and make a new field that is a autonumber? that might do the trick.

 

[Chev78]

Deleting all rows and then Compacting the Database will reset the autonumber to 1. If you don't delete all the rows then the compact will set the autonumber to 1 more than the last autonumber used