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Data manipulation - concatenating fields

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addy

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May 18, 2001
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OK, I have a dump of some data from an excel spreadsheet which I am going to put into a MS Access database. However, I need to do some manipulation of the data and am unsure how best to do this. The two 'fields' in the spreadsheet I am interested in are ID and Title. The way I have received the data, the title has been split over multiple rows, each of which has the same ID number in and I need to create one row which has all the bits of the title added together.

As an example, ID 1234 might have a full title of 'This is a test document title only' and the spreadsheet I have received has the following rows:

1234 This is a
1234 test document
1234 title only

And I need to end up with one record saying:

1234 This is a test document title only

How could I go about this?

Thanks.
 
Hi
I think this may help:
How to concatenate multiple child records into a single value
faq701-4233
 
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