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Old January 30th, 2006, 08:06 PM posted to microsoft.public.access.reports
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formatting a data field in an access report to get rid of leading zeros
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Old January 30th, 2006, 08:29 PM posted to microsoft.public.access.reports
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If the field consist of numbers only with leading zero's, you can try

val([FieldName])

or
Format([FieldName],"#")

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formatting a data field in an access report to get rid of leading zeros

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Old January 30th, 2006, 08:29 PM posted to microsoft.public.access.reports
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Please post an actual question using complete sentences.

One answer to your question (using as much detail as you gave us) would
be...

Change data type to numeric, not text.

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