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In a database table the text is left-aligned and the numbers are
right-aligned by default. Can we change the default setting?
Would be very grateful for any help please.

Regards. S
 
Sal

You'll find a strong consensus recommendation in these newsgroups that you
NOT work directly in the tables, but rather, through forms. Among other
reasons not to use tables directly, is the fact that folks look at it and
see "spreadsheet" and try to do formatting on it.

Forms work great for that!

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Jeff Boyce
Microsoft Office/Access MVP
 
Sal said:
In a database table the text is left-aligned and the numbers are
right-aligned by default. Can we change the default setting?
Would be very grateful for any help please.

Regards. S
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Consider a table as a warehouse for data with the data in piles based on
the data type (like number date, text) They don't have any specific order
or much of any reason someone would bother trying to look at the data in
them.

Queries, forms reports all make good tools for viewing and working with
data.
 

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