How can I change the number of digits for my primary key

[mlamont]

Hi, in my table I have my primary key which is a number and they range anywhere from 1 - 1000 for ex one record's primary key may be 12, and another record's primary key may be 1023. What I need to do is to convert all of the numbers for my primary key in my table to 6 digits, ie 12 becomes 000012, and 1023 becomes 001023.

Can anybody help me?

 

[DBL]

Put "000000" (without quotes) in the Format property of the field in the table.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

But remember that if the primary key is an Integer (not a Long), you only have 5 digits to begin with. So make sure you have the primary key as a Long. If it is an integer, you can safely go into design mode and change it to long, because expanding a field is always legal. It is going the other way that gets dangerous.