ACC: How to Sort Records in Case-Sensitive ( ASCII) OrderLast reviewed: August 29, 1997Article ID: Q130333 |
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SUMMARYModerate: Requires basic macro, coding, and interoperability skills. This article demonstrates a sample user-defined function you can use to sort records in case-sensitive (or ASCII) order. This article assumes that you are familiar with Visual Basic for Applications and with creating Microsoft Access applications using the programming tools provided with Microsoft Access. For more information about Visual Basic for Applications, please refer to your version of the "Building Applications with Microsoft Access" manual. NOTE: Visual Basic for Applications is called Access Basic in Microsoft Access versions 1.x and 2.0. For more information about Access Basic, please refer to the "Introduction to Programming" manual in Microsoft Access version 1.x or the "Building Applications" manual in Microsoft Access version 2.0.
MORE INFORMATIONMicrosoft Access sorts records in ascending or descending order without regard to case. However, you can use a user-defined function in a query to sort text data by its ASCII character values. This results in a case- sensitive order. The following table demonstrates how the ascending order in Microsoft Access differs from a case-sensitive order:
Ascending Case-Sensitive Order Order -------------------------- a A A B B C b D c a C b D c d dTo sort records in case-sensitive order, follow these steps:
REFERENCESFor more information about the Hex() function search the Help Index for "Hex function," or ask the Microsoft Access 97 Office Assistant. Keywords : kbusage PgmHowTo Version : 1.0 1.1 2.0 7.0 97 Platform : WINDOWS Hardware : x86 Issue type : kbhowto |
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