Access 2007 ignoring hyphens when sorting

[Guest]

I am sorting a text field, Item, in an Access 2007 query.

My sort order appears to have changed since Access 2003.

My results used to be:

ITEM
a-1111
a-3333
a-5555
a-7777
a2222
a4444
a6666
a8888

Now I get:
a-1111
a2222
a-3333
a4444
a-5555
a6666
a-7777
a8888

Of course my item numbers are not as simple as the ones above and the
hyphens can be in any position in the part number.

How do I get Access to consider all characters in a field for sorting?
Punctuation, special characters, etc. should all be part of the sort.


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Brian Scheele
IT Manager
Clark Filter
3649 Hempland Road
Lancaster, PA 17601-1323

 

[Allen Browne]

Access has has problems with sorting hypens for 7 years now.

Results are inconsistent, depending on whether the field is indexed or not.

Here's one of Microsoft's articles:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/271661/en-us