Resetting Autonumber after deleting records

[Guest]

I have a table with an autonumber primary key. I have been using it for bogus
data while I've been working on the database design, but now I've deleted the
data, but I can't reset the autonumber so that it starts at 1 again.

Can someone tell me how to do this?
Thanks,
=Ray=

 

[Al Campagna]

Ray,
After you delete all the records in the table, do a Compact.
The next record you enter after that should start with 1.
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hth
Al Campagna
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[Paul Shapiro]

It depends on the Access version. In recent versions, compacting no longer
resets the autonumber to the next available number. From an earlier post by
Tony Toews:

Resetting AutoNumbers
http://www.allenbrowne.com/ser-40.html

ACC2000: AutoNumber Field Duplicates Previous Values After You Compact and
Repair a Database
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=257408

AutoNumber Field Duplicates Previous Values After You Compact and Repair a
Database
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=291162

How To: Obtain the Latest Service Pack for the Microsoft Jet 4.0 Database
Engine
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=239114

You may receive an error message when you try to insert a new record in a
table that contains an Autonumber field in Access 2007 or in Access 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=884185