Jeff. The asterisks do not indicate that the field cannot
display your data. It indicates that it cannot even contain your data.
>Hi All,
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>When populating a numeric with a value greater than the field can accept, you get the numeric overflow message and the field appears as a series of asterisks. Whilst the field may not be able to display the correct value due to size discrepancies, is there anyway of retrieving the underlying value?
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>Regards
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>Jeff
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