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<font size="+1"><tt>The question is not should you but <i>why</i>??
I have never come across a good reason for it, probably means
your using a raw table view as an input device? Bad practice me
thinks, very dangerous in large databases, always assume the
user is a mad bull and you wont go wrong :-) That's what forms
are for.<br>
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Regards<br>
Brett Groves<br>
ICT Manager<br>
Croydon Secondary College<br>
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On 17/05/11 15:08, Mark KELLY wrote:
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<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> G'Day again<br>
'Tis true that you shouldn't use a formula in a table<br>
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Unless you use Filemaker, in which case the answer is the
opposite :-)<br>
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I didn't even know that you <b>could</b> create a calculated
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