Question

MS Access 2007

I’m trying to start AutoNumber at 5,000 and increase it by 9 for each entry. Is there any way to do this? It doesn’t have to be with AutoNumber, if there is another way in Access to do this, that would be great too. Please help.

Answer 1

You can use DDL under ADO to set the autonumber seed and increment. (However, echoing @mwolfe02’s comment … why?)

Dim strSql as String
strSql = "ALTER TABLE YourTable ALTER COLUMN YourAutoNumberColumn COUNTER(5000, 9)"
CurrentProject.Connection.Execute strSql

Also see if this previous Stack Overflow question is useful to you: How to reset autonumber seed – MS Access/VB6