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Access 2003 expression for Trim

Hello,
I am a newbie to access and am having some difficulty with the following:
I have a control source in an access report that places city org and name in the correct order I need them to show up. It looks loke this: =Trim([City] & " -- " & [Organization] & "--" & [Full Name])
This works fine except I need this, if the name listed does not have an organization I need only "" not "--" if they do have an organization they will need the "--"

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Rey Obrero (Capricorn1)

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aplona

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That did the trick. I have about 30 reports though, how do I add that to all of them at the same time?

Jim Horn

>I have about 30 reports though, how do I add that to all of them at the same time?
Unless all 30 report's RecordSource's are the same, you don't add them 'at the same time', you find each RecordSource / ControlSource and do it one at a time.

aplona

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I have this under the control source in the report. All reports I have will have the same control source. Is it possible to change all of the report control source to this all at once rather than doing into each one.

Jim Horn

>I have this under the control source in the report.
Just to clarify terms, reports have a record source, and all data-bound controls on a report have a control source.

aplona

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I see. The record source for each report I have is the query. It looks like I will have to do this individually right?

Jim Horn

>It looks like I will have to do this individually right?
You'll have to flush out all the unique queries that serve as the record sources for your 30-ish reports, and change each one.