But isn't this limitation of Access even more of an arguement for teaching Access hobbyist to design data fields in a logical fashion? It really seems the problem is being framed as "How do I keep the leather on my shoes from getting messed up when I swim?" < bg >
>>Will be interested to see the one-line solution.
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>Sorry, Charles, forgot to include you in my response to Hilmar, about Access and "no expressions in indexes". So, there is no viable solution in this direction.
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>Back to the drawing board! The only assumnption here is that we have perhaps 50,000 or more hobby Access users that have/want a 1-column sort for this ordering.
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>Back to he drawing board. Maybe an SQL solution, I'm gonna look at that first.
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>I don't know if this qualifies as an "upside" but I *am* learning a lot more about MS Access doing this project, than I did before I began it :-)
Charles Hankey
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