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  1. #1
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    Deleting Spaces


    My database has duplicates because when I loaded the excel spreadsheet using get external data some phone numbers were (111)111-1111, and some were (111) 111-1111 so that nasty space after the right parenthesis causes my querry not to see a duplicate. There are 88,000 records in my database. Is there any way I can remove the space?

    thank you
    George

  2. #2
    StepUP is offline Advanced Beginner
    Windows 7 64bit Access 2000
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    Use an Update query, where the field (say it called "Phone") is updated to Trim([Phone]).

  3. #3
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    George,

    Try this:

    UPDATE YourTable
    SET PhoneNumber = Replace([PhoneNumber], " ", "")

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