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Access:Convert Month to a serial number

I have a table(Name: "Months" Columns: "MonthName", "Month_Number")

How do I make it so that whenever a user enters a month in "MonthName" (In the following format "mmm" [i.e. Jan, Feb, Mar]) a corresponding number appears in the "Month_Number" field in the same record.

i.e. If the user enters "Jan" in the "MonthName" field, "1" appears in the "Month_Number" field
i.e. If the user enters "Feb" in the "MonthName" field, "2" appears in the "Month_Number" field
i.e. If the user enters "Dec" in the "MonthName" field, "12" appears in the "Month_Number" field
i.e. If the user enters "Aug" in the "MonthName" field, "8" appears in the "Month_Number" field

Also If I wanted to create the same effect using a subform where the table above ("Months") is the record source. How would I do it?

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peter57r

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Rey Obrero (Capricorn1)

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MikeToole

For what purpose is the Months table used? There may well be another (simpler?) solution.

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GijimaAst

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Gustav Brock

As Mike says, why store it all?
At any time it can be retrieved:

MonthNumber = Month(DateValue(MonthName & "/1"))

/gustav

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Peter got there first and offered a good alternate solution to my problem. Cap solved the problem by stating my original question can not be done, but proposed solution that works, GijimaAst also had a good solution that works on a form. I will divide points. THANKS!!!!