Dougalsworld
Paul
- Local time
- Today, 08:48
- Joined
- Jul 29, 2005
- Messages
- 62
Hi Guys,
Need a little bit of help, I have a report I pull out of an inhouse system with sales, shortages etc. I want to use a query to alter the formatting slightly and append it in to a different table. Most of this i can do fine, except for one thing.
Two of the sales fields in my report I'm uploading come out in the following text format:
19.0PC
27.0PC
45.0PC
etc...
I need to change this before appending as its going in to a number field, all i need to do is lose the PC, e.g.
19.0
27.0
45.0
etc...
I can do this manually, it's a simple find and replace in excel before uploading, gowever I want to automate this as much as possible. Looking around I'm pretty sure it can be done in a query using the REPLACE function but I'm unsure on the formats to use.
The only other thing is once its converted even though it will visually be a numbe (e.g. 45.0) it will still technically be a text field, will this prove a problem on the appending?
Many Thanks
Paul
Need a little bit of help, I have a report I pull out of an inhouse system with sales, shortages etc. I want to use a query to alter the formatting slightly and append it in to a different table. Most of this i can do fine, except for one thing.
Two of the sales fields in my report I'm uploading come out in the following text format:
19.0PC
27.0PC
45.0PC
etc...
I need to change this before appending as its going in to a number field, all i need to do is lose the PC, e.g.
19.0
27.0
45.0
etc...
I can do this manually, it's a simple find and replace in excel before uploading, gowever I want to automate this as much as possible. Looking around I'm pretty sure it can be done in a query using the REPLACE function but I'm unsure on the formats to use.
The only other thing is once its converted even though it will visually be a numbe (e.g. 45.0) it will still technically be a text field, will this prove a problem on the appending?
Many Thanks
Paul
