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Understood. Just couldn't find the spot where I could change the Number from Long Integer to Double. Finally did find it. And Double is what I need for other reasons. Any clue what "Large Number" is supposed to mean? Apparently it's an integer of some kind.

Sux getting old. Try never to do it. My field was specified as Large Number. That's because when I tried Number, it wanted to use Long Integer. Finally figured out that I could change the Long Integer selection to Double. Duh. But now my curiosity is getting the best of me. What the heck...

After much hairpulling, I managed to figure out that both the table and the form need to agree on the format. I settled on Fixed format with 3 decimal places for the specific field I'm interested in. When I try to enter the molecular weight of methane (16.043) the form shows my input as...

Hi there. I go by Balota pretty much everywhere. I like a number of shooting sports: IDPA, skeet, trap, sporting clays. I've been an engineer/programmer since 1980 or so. Just starting to learn VB.NET and using Access for convenient, expandable storage of engineering data. Planning on...