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I'm a lifestyle journalist and I've been writing about office productivity software for a long time. Here you'll find handy hints, tips, tricks, techniques and tutorials on using software as diverse as Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access and Publisher from Microsoft and other applications that I love. My publishing credits include PC Magazine, Windows XP mag, CNet, PC User mag, SmallbusinessComputing.com, Winplanet and Sydney Morning Herald.

Monday, March 12, 2007

Joining data in Access queries

When your Access query results need to look neat and tidy, you'll often want to join related pieces of data together that actually appear in separate fields of the file. For example if you have a list of first names and last names in separate fields (as you should), you can still view them in a single column in your query results.

To do this, join the data in the query data sheet, for example this will join the data from the FirstName and LastName fields and display it as a proper name in the query results:

FirstName & " " & LastName

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