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List Box Percentage Formatting
Why does a percentage formatted field in my query used for the list box show
up as a decimal rather than a percentage? I have the fields formatted in the underlying query as "Percentage" with 1 decimal. E.G. What should be showing up as 9.4% is showing up as 0.0942212345829. How do I fix this?? Frank |
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List Box Percentage Formatting
Convert them to text:
CStr(Format([MyField] ... etc. -- Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVP http://www.datastrat.com http://www.accessmvp.com http://www.mvps.org/access "FrankTimJr" wrote in message ... Why does a percentage formatted field in my query used for the list box show up as a decimal rather than a percentage? I have the fields formatted in the underlying query as "Percentage" with 1 decimal. E.G. What should be showing up as 9.4% is showing up as 0.0942212345829. How do I fix this?? Frank |
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List Box Percentage Formatting
On Thu, 13 May 2010 16:58:01 -0700, FrankTimJr
wrote: Why does a percentage formatted field in my query used for the list box show up as a decimal rather than a percentage? I have the fields formatted in the underlying query as "Percentage" with 1 decimal. E.G. What should be showing up as 9.4% is showing up as 0.0942212345829. How do I fix this?? Frank That number is the actual value. 0.094 and 9.4% are just two ways of displaying the same number! A table or query format property will not carry over into a listbox (or an export to Word, or lots of other things). Try putting a calculated field in the Query: ShowPct: Format([fieldname], "Percent") and display that calculated field in the listbox. You won't be able to do calculations with the listbox's value if this is the bound column. -- John W. Vinson [MVP] |
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List Box Percentage Formatting
Worked like a charm!! Can I do the same for "Currency"? I'll give it a shot!
Thanks again. "John W. Vinson" wrote: On Thu, 13 May 2010 16:58:01 -0700, FrankTimJr wrote: Why does a percentage formatted field in my query used for the list box show up as a decimal rather than a percentage? I have the fields formatted in the underlying query as "Percentage" with 1 decimal. E.G. What should be showing up as 9.4% is showing up as 0.0942212345829. How do I fix this?? Frank That number is the actual value. 0.094 and 9.4% are just two ways of displaying the same number! A table or query format property will not carry over into a listbox (or an export to Word, or lots of other things). Try putting a calculated field in the Query: ShowPct: Format([fieldname], "Percent") and display that calculated field in the listbox. You won't be able to do calculations with the listbox's value if this is the bound column. -- John W. Vinson [MVP] . |
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