Splitting a field

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soareagle

can i split an existing field in Access table? ie, the opposite of
concatenation. how?
 
Bring the table into a query. Select the half of the fields that you want in
the first table. Make that query into a make-table query. Run it and make
table 1. Repeat for table 2.
 
yes, there are fuctions such as left and right and other ways to get just a
portion of the value. Some sample data and results would help you to get
better suggestions.
 
In addition to using the Left, Mid & Right functions, you can export your
table to Excel, and use Data > Text to Columns... to split it up, based on
some identifier, such as a comma, space, tab, etc. You can also use the
built-in Split function to split data into an array. I show a few examples on
pages 6 and 7 of a Word document that I call "Access Links.doc". You are
welcome to download a zipped copy from my web site:

http://www.accessmvp.com/TWickerath/


Tom Wickerath
Microsoft Access MVP
http://www.accessmvp.com/TWickerath/
http://www.access.qbuilt.com/html/expert_contributors.html
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