Question

i am doing conditional formatting on a report in access

i need to check if a certain string exists in a field as the condition in conditional formatting. something like this:

[field_name] like '%something%'

will this kind of condition work?

Answer 1

You have to use asterisk with MS Access.

[field_name] like '*something*'

For a single character, you can do this

[field_name] like 'fieldnam?'

For three characters, you can do this

[field_name] like 'fieldna???'