How are you "running" the query? With the Run button or with the View
button? In select queries, it makes no difference, but with action queries,
you HAVE to use the Run button. Also, try Trim() instead of Trim$().

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"Kat" wrote in message
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Roger,

I was woundering if I needed to do an update query. I tried to do it with
a
make table query but it did not work. I created the update query and put
Trim$([26774]!Item) in the update to field but it still is not working.
When
I run the query and go back to the table the spacing is still there. What
am
I doing wrong?

"Roger Carlson" wrote:

You need to make an Update Query. In the Query Builder, make a Select
query
with the one field ([Item]). Then change the query to an Update Query
(there's a button on the tool bar), and put the expression you used
below in
the UpdateTo row of the field. Then run the query with the Run button.

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"Kat" wrote in message
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I have (2) tables that were imported into access from excel. However,
the
data has a combination of letters, numbers, and dashes in it. That
will
make the data type as Text. Included in the data are spaces before
and
after
the text. I want to remove the spaces so that I can create a query to
match
two same fields from diffrent tables. In a query I built a field that
should
have removed the spaces but it did not. This is what I did: ItemNew:
Trim$([26774]![Item]). But it did not remove the spaces. Until I
remove
the
spaces I can not match the data from both tables. What am I missing?