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July 30th, 2009, 03:15 PM
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Sort text field by 2nd word
I have a text field that contains names of workers in FName LName format. Is
there a way that I can sort this field by the Last Name (2nd word of field) so that the records will be in alphabetical order by last name instead of by first name? I know that the best way would be if the names were in separate fields but this is how the database was set up some time ago. Thanks! -- JWeaver 
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July 30th, 2009, 03:20 PM
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Sort text field by 2nd word
You can use an expression in the Sorting and Grouping like:
=Mid([FieldName], Instr([FieldName]," ")+1) -- Duane Hookom Microsoft Access MVP "JWeaver" wrote: I have a text field that contains names of workers in FName LName format. Is there a way that I can sort this field by the Last Name (2nd word of field) so that the records will be in alphabetical order by last name instead of by first name? I know that the best way would be if the names were in separate fields but this is how the database was set up some time ago. Thanks! -- JWeaver
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July 30th, 2009, 03:46 PM
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Sort text field by 2nd word
Thank you. That worked beautifully!!
-- JWeaver "Duane Hookom" wrote: You can use an expression in the Sorting and Grouping like: =Mid([FieldName], Instr([FieldName]," ")+1) -- Duane Hookom Microsoft Access MVP "JWeaver" wrote: I have a text field that contains names of workers in FName LName format. Is there a way that I can sort this field by the Last Name (2nd word of field) so that the records will be in alphabetical order by last name instead of by first name? I know that the best way would be if the names were in separate fields but this is how the database was set up some time ago. Thanks! -- JWeaver
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