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Autonumber fileds

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Patrick has attended:
Access Introduction course
Access Intermediate course

Autonumber fileds

I have cereated a database and each record has been assigned an autonumber.

However, a few recirds have been deleted and the autonumbering now starts at 20. How can I re-number the autonumbers so that they start at 1 again?

Regards,

Patrick

RE: Autonumber fileds

Dear Patrick

Thank you for attending Access Courses!! I hope you enjoyed the courses and benefited from them.

Please refer to the following link to reset your Auto number lists.

You will be required to create a make table query. It has got step by step instruction so it should be quite straight forward to follow it.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/812718

I hope this has answered your query.

If this has answered your query then I would request you to please mark the question as resolved!! If not and you have a specific question related to this then please post it as a new question and we should be able to provide you the solution for it!!

Kindest Regards


Rajeev Rawat
MOS Master Instructor 2000 and 2003
MCAS Master Instructor 2007
MCT

Tue 5 May 2009: Automatically marked as resolved.


 

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