Forcing Upper case of field at table level?

Y

Yuta

Am using Access 2003.
When designing a table, if I use '>' to format a field the field does not
display anything in a listbox on a form. When I remove the '>' from the
Format in table design, everything displays fine in the list box. Is this a
bug or am I missing something?
 
F

fredg

Am using Access 2003.
When designing a table, if I use '>' to format a field the field does not
display anything in a listbox on a form. When I remove the '>' from the
Format in table design, everything displays fine in the list box. Is this a
bug or am I missing something?

1) As a table is just the repository of data, it really shouldn't
matter whether the data is stored as upper or lower case.
2) The > in the Format property of the field only affects how the data
is displayed, not how the data is stored.
3) The > in the table field's format property should not cause the
list box to not display any data. A simple test in my database showed
the data in upper case, as expected.
4) You have something else going on here.
Did you recently download and install the Access 2003 Service Pack 3?
If so, it might be a bug introduced with the service pack.
See this link for details on the hotfix.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/945674
 
Y

Yuta

fredg said:
1) As a table is just the repository of data, it really shouldn't
matter whether the data is stored as upper or lower case.
2) The > in the Format property of the field only affects how the data
is displayed, not how the data is stored.
3) The > in the table field's format property should not cause the
list box to not display any data. A simple test in my database showed
the data in upper case, as expected.
4) You have something else going on here.
Did you recently download and install the Access 2003 Service Pack 3?
If so, it might be a bug introduced with the service pack.

That's exactly what it was! Thanks very much Fred
I thought the auto updates would've installed the fix?
I've never quite understood how us end users are suposed to keep up to date
with all the fixes available.
Anyway thatnks for pointing the fix out to me Fred!
 

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