Depending on your definition of "autonumber"...

If you mean what Access provides, we can almost guarantee there will be
"skipped" numbers.

If you mean a custom "autonumber" (lower case) function, it could ensure
that numbers are guaranteed sequential ... BUT! if someone were to delete a
record, there would still be a missing/skipped number!

Good luck

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Jeff Boyce
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"accessnewbie79915" wrote in
message ...
I am new to access myself, but I do know enough to say that if you adopt
the
autonumber setup it would work better for you. However, do not skip
numbers
when building your database. The reason for this is that when it comes
time
to query your data into reports and forms, if you skip numbers it could
cause
problems pulling in the data that you want.

"Rev David Bissas" wrote:

I am trying to create a unique PIN for members in a table (not the
primary
key) that will be 4 digits long, and would like each new entry to be
incremental. I am very new, and would appreciate a detailed instruction
(though I can get around access fair enough). Any help would be
appreciated.