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    Question Prevent Duplicates

    I hope this isn't a difficult thing to do but I'm a newb and want to prevent typing duplicates into a column. Does anyone have an easy way to do this? Thanks!



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    can you key the table? this will solve it.

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    I appreciate the response so quickly, but what does "key the table" mean? And how would I do it? Thanks!

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    I realized afterwards that it meant the primary key but I ended up realizing I can adjust the indexing area of the non-primary key column to yes (no duplicates) and now it will not allow me to add duplicates in that specific column I was concerned about. Thanks for the help

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