Advanced filter with *
I have a database where one of the records is made up of some notes. Once
the notes have been processed an * is put at the start of the first letter of the first sentence to show that it has been dealt with. All I want to do is select out all the records which do not have an * in that particular record. I appreciate it is a wildcard character, and I understand it would be simpler to create another Y/N record but the circumstances do not allow that in this situation so I would be grateful if anyone could advise me if there is there any way to set the criteria to allow this selection. Kind regards Graham Haughs |
Advanced filter with *
"Graham Haughs" wrote in message
... I have a database where one of the records is made up of some notes. Once the notes have been processed an * is put at the start of the first letter of the first sentence to show that it has been dealt with. All I want to do is select out all the records which do not have an * in that particular record. I appreciate it is a wildcard character, and I understand it would be simpler to create another Y/N record but the circumstances do not allow that in this situation so I would be grateful if anyone could advise me if there is there any way to set the criteria to allow this selection. Auto-filter for records which contain ~* should work. Precede your asterisk by a tilde in the search criterion. -- David Biddulph |
Advanced filter with *
David Biddulph wrote:
"Graham Haughs" wrote in message ... I have a database where one of the records is made up of some notes. Once the notes have been processed an * is put at the start of the first letter of the first sentence to show that it has been dealt with. All I want to do is select out all the records which do not have an * in that particular record. I appreciate it is a wildcard character, and I understand it would be simpler to create another Y/N record but the circumstances do not allow that in this situation so I would be grateful if anyone could advise me if there is there any way to set the criteria to allow this selection. Auto-filter for records which contain ~* should work. Precede your asterisk by a tilde in the search criterion. Thanks David , that works fine to select those with an * but I want to select those without. I tried <~* and other permutations but does not seem to work. Probably something simple I am missing. Graham |
Advanced filter with *
"Graham Haughs" wrote in message
... David Biddulph wrote: "Graham Haughs" wrote in message ... I have a database where one of the records is made up of some notes. Once the notes have been processed an * is put at the start of the first letter of the first sentence to show that it has been dealt with. All I want to do is select out all the records which do not have an * in that particular record. I appreciate it is a wildcard character, and I understand it would be simpler to create another Y/N record but the circumstances do not allow that in this situation so I would be grateful if anyone could advise me if there is there any way to set the criteria to allow this selection. Auto-filter for records which contain ~* should work. Precede your asterisk by a tilde in the search criterion. Thanks David , that works fine to select those with an * but I want to select those without. I tried <~* and other permutations but does not seem to work. Probably something simple I am missing. In that case, I would Auto-filter for "does not contain" ~* -- David Biddulph |
Advanced filter with *
David Biddulph wrote:
"Graham Haughs" wrote in message ... David Biddulph wrote: "Graham Haughs" wrote in message . .. I have a database where one of the records is made up of some notes. Once the notes have been processed an * is put at the start of the first letter of the first sentence to show that it has been dealt with. All I want to do is select out all the records which do not have an * in that particular record. I appreciate it is a wildcard character, and I understand it would be simpler to create another Y/N record but the circumstances do not allow that in this situation so I would be grateful if anyone could advise me if there is there any way to set the criteria to allow this selection. Auto-filter for records which contain ~* should work. Precede your asterisk by a tilde in the search criterion. Thanks David , that works fine to select those with an * but I want to select those without. I tried <~* and other permutations but does not seem to work. Probably something simple I am missing. In that case, I would Auto-filter for "does not contain" ~* Nice one David. Many thanks for that. Graham |
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