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    Accessing the DESCRIPTION field of an Access field

    I am making a utility that documents all the elements of an Access database, including documenting each field of each table, noting among other things, the field's "Description" metadata. I was able to do this easily in DAO, but since it is not possible to capture a Decimal field's Scale property in DAO, I am now using ADO instead (which allows access to Scale via .NumericScale), but it looks like ADO cannot capture a field's "Description" property. I've tried cycling through the properties of the fields with no luck. Does anyone know how to access an Access field's "Description" property in ADO?

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    How to attach file: http://www.accessforums.net/showthread.php?t=70301 To provide db: copy, remove confidential data, run compact & repair, zip w/Windows Compression.

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