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Update Qry 1

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pfunk

pfunk

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May 7, 2007
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i have a field called zip it is a text field. when i imported to access it dropped the O in front so i am looking to write a qry to identify if it has only 4 characters them update those with a zero in front of it?
 
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Please post the SQL that you have tried.

If you import to a text field, or use an import specification, Access will not drop zeros.
 
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update tablename set zip = format(zip,"00000")
 
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