Description of a field

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Pierre-Yves Ste-Marie

Is it possible to retreive the descrion of a field in a table, in a report ?

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Marshall Barton

Pierre-Yves Ste-Marie said:
Is it possible to retreive the descrion of a field in a table, in a report ?
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Use this chain of object references:

CurrentDb.TableDefs!tablename.Fields!fieldname.Properties!Description

If the field does not have a description property, you will
get a 3270 error so use error trapping to deal with it.
 

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