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Empty Strings and Null String

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I am fairly new to MS Access and just have a fairly simple question. When doing text box checks I always check IsNull(textbox) and textbox <> "". Then today it occured to me that the text boxes could also contain a string with all spaces. However when I did some experimenting I found that it was not possible to enter just spaces in a text box and store them, the textbox would just be set as null, correct me if I am wrong.

My question is, is there anyway that a textbox could even be = "" (empty string) or would it always be set to null. If so I want to remove the empty string test to save myself trouble in the future and clean my current code code up.
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Zone: Microsoft
Question Asked By: bejhan
Solution Provided By: DatabaseMX
Participating Experts: 2
Solution Grade: A
Views: 8
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