help with autonumbers and such

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I started work for a wireless company a while back, and they keep track of all the mac address's for customers. The problem was that they choose to use the serial number as the primary key.

Nothing wrong with that, but what is wrong is that the serials arnt totaly in order. They werent sure on there serial number scheme so they just kind of made it up at first, then settled into something more concrete later.

The first serial numbers go up to 999, and this is fine, its after this that things get complicated. They totaly skip the 2 thousands and start again at 3000.

What they have assigned me to do, since i am the one with the only access classes from college is fix it.

What they want to do is type the serial number in a box on a form and it bring up that record. I have already built the form and just tried adding a "find record" button but they didnt like it. They want to just type it in the form, not in a nother window.

Any suggestions? I have suggested we could add all the missing serial numbers to the list, but then we have huge sections of blank data. not a real big deal, but i cant remeber for the life of me how to just type in a few recuring numbers and have access finish it off. I can remeber in excel but its not the same.

Thanks in advanced.
 

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