Postal code field

[Jeff Boyce]

Stu

If you are truly referring to postal codes, note the word "code". These are
not "numbers", even though, in the US, they look like numbers. If your
underlying table defines that field as a number, you can only use formatting
to DISPLAY the leading zero, because "00001" and "1" are the same number.

If you need to STORE the leading "0", and if you might ever have a postal
code from a country other than the US, change the data type to "text".

Regards

Jeff Boyce
Microsoft Access MVP

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[Dorian]

MyPostalCode = "0" & CStr(MyPostalCode)
-- Dorian
"Give someone a fish and they eat for a day; teach someone to fish and they
eat for a lifetime".

 

[Stu Meyer]

I need to add a beginning "0" in the postal code field-how do you do that??

TIA