Format as currecy for just the one current record
Right now if I select "Category" all of the Net Amounts display as currency in all of the records. They need to display as Single, Standard, 2 decimals like the field is formatted in the table.
What am I doing wrong?
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I actually have an application where I need to do this. The schema is a very rare Entity-Value-Pairs design. The application supports an insurance company and in order to allow them to create new policy types with new data fields on the fly, the table that holds the policy detail fields has this layout:
UniqueID (autonumber PK0
PolicyID (foreign key to policy header)
FldID (foreign key to field definition table)
DataValue (actual contents such as 5/6/17, $3,500,00, and even 101 Main St)
If a new policy type requires a data field that we have never defined before, the user has to define it in the field table along with its attributes so the update form will know how the saved data needs to be formatted. Then the field can be assigned to a policyType and used for data entry for a specific policy.
You can only do this if you store the data as text. Then in the AfterUpdate event of the CONTROL, you apply the format based on some other field. However, saving numeric data as text makes it very difficult to use for arithmetic and completely useless for relative value comparisons or sorting.
Conditional formatting does not support anything but font and color changes.