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Asked: 2026-06-04T10:55:53+00:00

I am using an Access 2007 append query with parameters values, to enable a

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I am using an Access 2007 append query with parameters values, to enable a data entry clerk to input data into a table. Please advise how I go about forcing the data that is inputted in the text field “new_part_ID” to always be uppercase and to for the numeric field “workorder Qty” to be a whole number and not text
thank you very much in advance, Nathaniel 

    INSERT INTO tbl_New_part_ID_input ( new_part_ID, [workorder Qty] )
    SELECT [please CAREFULLY enter  work order  part_ID in UPPERCASE] AS Expr1, [please CAREFULLY enter the work order Qty] AS Expr2;
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  1. Editorial Team

    For the upper case part you can just convert the input on the fly like so

    INSERT INTO tbl_New_part_ID_input ( new_part_ID, [workorder Qty] )
    SELECT upper([please CAREFULLY enter  work order  part_ID]) AS Expr1, [please CAREFULLY enter the work order Qty] AS Expr2;

    As for forcing a whole number for the quantity. You could always set the field type to only allow whole numbers which would make the query error. Another option is to apply a rounding function of some sort on the quantity the user enters.

    There really isn’t a way to show a validation message associated with query inputs directly. If you really must do this I suggest using a form instead of a query and putting validation rules on the field. Alternatively you could apply validation rules on the field directly in the table instead of the query.

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