Thanks Dave!
Tracy
>>I want a listbox's rowsource to be:
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>>formfield, LEFT(profiler,100)
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>>but it won't let me. It allows me to enter that value but when the form runs I receive a syntax error. I'm doing a sql select into a table but I don't want to do a sql select LEFT(profiler,100) because I need the entire field for other purposes and I want the fieldname to remain the same and not become exp_2, etc.
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>>Is it possible?
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>>TIA,
>>Tracy
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>to avoid a renaming like 'exp_2' I do this...
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>SELECT LEFT(Profiler,100) AS MyNewName FROM Customer INTO CURSOR TestQuery
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>then the field is called MyNewName...
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>and I make the RowSourceType = 2
>and RowSource = TestQuery
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