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Formating Field in Access Table

I have an assignment for a class where I am creating a Database an assignment. The problem is that for one of the fields I can't figure out how to format the field to do what I need it to do. This is the infomation I have about it
Primary key, the ID of the table, including the first two characters of the customers last name (from a different table), and a 4 digit number (AB1234 for example). Ther is no need to create a validation rules or input masks to ensure this.
I am clueless as how to do this, or if it is even possible with this program and maybe they just want us to put it in manually. Help please
 
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Rebecca Riordan

Sweetie, as a general rule, we tend to avoid doing people's homework around
here, but I'll give you a nudge in the general direction of your solution:
it can't be done in the table design.

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Formating Field in Access Table said:
I have an assignment for a class where I am creating a Database an
assignment. The problem is that for one of the fields I can't figure out how
to format the field to do what I need it to do. This is the infomation I
have about it:
Primary key, the ID of the table, including the first two characters of
the customers last name (from a different table), and a 4 digit number
(AB1234 for example). Ther is no need to create a validation rules or input
masks to ensure this.
I am clueless as how to do this, or if it is even possible with this
program and maybe they just want us to put it in manually. Help please
 

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