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    Silvera is offline Advanced Beginner
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    Sorting by NOT the primary field - is it ppossible

    I track the paper flow during the building of a building. The primary filed is the number for the document from 001 sequentially. Another major field is the specification section number these are usually 6 digit numbers. I've been trying to sort a report by the section number but that never works. I have the Access 2010 "the missing manual" but it is not helping. Is it possible to sort reports by a secondary item?



    I've read the similar posts. I guess I need to know how to turn off the primary sort which is base on the submittal # and I want to sort on the specification number.

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    Are you setting sort order in the report design using Sorting & Grouping feature?
    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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    Silvera is offline Advanced Beginner
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    No, I did not understand how that worked. All my tracking has been by item number. For this one report I want to sort by section number.

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    Sorting in query will be ignored by report. Set sorting in report design. The ORDER BY property will work for simple report.
    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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