Combining Fields in a Query, format Question (Access 97)

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In the one table in this database there are 3 fields, Medication, Dose, Units. An example record would be: Epogen 10,000.00 Units. In the one query, we want to combine the three fields into one record, and have used the following expression:

Expr1: [Table1]![Medication] & ” ” & [Table1]![Dose] & ” ” & [Table1]![Units]

However, when the information is displayed, it displays the Dose without the comma and decimal places in the query, even though that shows up in the table itself (as in the table example above). Example of display in Query: Epogen 10000 Units

Is there a way to get the formatting of that cell to still appear when it’s being concatenated?

Thanks,

Kelley

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Hi Kelley,
Try this:
Expr1: [Table1]![Medication] & ” ” & format([Table1]![Dose], “#,##0.00″) & ” ” & [Table1]![Units]
and you should get what you want.
Hope that helps.

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That did it! I just wasn’t sure if you could add the formatting in the expression, but now I know that you can. Thanks!!

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