From the course: Access 2016 Essential Training
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Controlling input with masks
From the course: Access 2016 Essential Training
Controlling input with masks
- Access Databases give us lots of ways to control the input of data into our tables. This helps ensure that what is enter is typed correctly and often more imporant, consistently. We can make use of the Input Mask field property to help us make sure that each time we enter in a phone number, for example, it gets formatted properly. Let's go ahead and open up our Guests table in Design view. One way to do that is to double click on it here in the navigation pane and then on the Home tab switch our view over here to Design view this way. Another way, if I go ahead and close out this table by pressing this X on the far right, and probably the way that I would prefer to do it is just find it in the navigation pane, right click on it, and choose Design View from the pop-up menu. Now, what I wanna do is add in an input mask for our PhoneNumber field. So, let's go ahead and select this field by clicking this box here to the left of the Phone field, and when we do we'll notice that we have a…
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Establishing relationships and maintaining referential integrity6m 15s
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Editing table structure in Design view4m 52s
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Controlling input with masks6m 9s
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Setting the default value2m 35s
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Establishing validation rules4m 6s
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Creating lookup fields3m 51s
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Setting additional field properties5m 12s
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Challenge: Creating tables44s
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Solution: Creating tables5m 50s
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