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Old May 13th, 2010, 10:19 AM posted to microsoft.public.access.forms
RonaldoOneNil
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Default cant type more than 11 numbers

A long variable can hold a maximum number of 2147483647
I suggest you make your bank account number field text. It does not need to
be a number just because it contains all digits. You are not going to perform
calculations with it are you ?

"Tia" wrote:

Dear all,
I have a bank account that contains more than 15 numbers, whenever i
am trying to make the data entry ex :4322386920125206 i am receiving
that
the value you entered isnt valid for this field for example you may
have entered text in a numeric field or that number is larger than the
field size setting permits please help
my data type is number ,filed size long integer, decimal places:auto

Please help
.