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remove the last 8 characters of a fields value 1

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josephwc

josephwc

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Oct 13, 2005
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In a Microsoft Access XP query how do I remove the last 8 characters of the Field record values.

Example: Field 1
Monday Forecast
Tuesday Forecast

Change to
Field 1
Monday
Tuesday
 
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Code: 
UPDATE myTable 

SET Field1 = Left(Field1, Len(Field1) - 8 )
 
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