Susan Harkins helps readers find simple Office solutions, including how to merge Access input mask characters into a Word document and avoid unwanted replies in Outlook.

Right, so I've left Excel for now and am working on the next project in Access...I need to be able to have a field where the user enters phone-numbers.. All fields must have strict rules for what ...

It may be catchy to use an alphanumeric phone number of your business, but Access data entry comes to a grinding halt when you or your users convert the numbers from the nearest telephone keypad ...

Hmm I am not sure exactly how to do that (I don't do very much MS Access programming).<P>But I did run accross this msdn kb article you might want to check out. It talks about flexible input masks ...