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Bar Graphs in an Access Query

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crystal (strive4peace) - Microsoft MVP, Access
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Add bar graphs to Access queries using Unicode block characters. Graphs appear on every record in the color you want. Give life to numbers.

Hopes this gives you ideas on visualizing your data in new ways ~

Video Steps

1. Create a calculated field in a query

2. Use Cint to convert to integer for the number of repititions

3. use ChrW(9600) for the Unicode upper half block character

4. use String to repeat a given character a number of times

5. Color the graph by setting the column Format to something like [Blue]@


   colors: Black, Blue, Green, Cyan, Red, Magenta, Yellow, or White
   @ signifies that the value is text
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