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2007 Microsoft® Office System Step by Step, Second Edition
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2007 Microsoft® Office System Step by Step, Second Edition

by Joyce Cox, Curtis D. Frye, M. Dow Lambert III, Steve Lambert, John Pierce, Joan Lambert
March 2008
Beginner
960 pages
24h 34m
English
Microsoft Press
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Restricting the Amount of Data in a Field

The Field Size property, which is valid for the Text, Number, and AutoNumber data types, restricts the number of characters that can be entered in a text field (from 0 to 255) and the number of digits that can be entered in a number or AutoNumber field. You can set number fields to any of the following values:

Setting

Description

Byte

Stores whole numbers from 0 to 255

Integer

Stores whole numbers from –32,768 to 32,767

Long Integer

(The default.) Stores whole numbers from –2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647

Single

Stores negative numbers from –3.402823E38 to –1.401298E–45 and positive numbers from 1.401298E–45 to 3.402823E38

Double

Stores negative numbers from –1.79769313486231E308 to –4.94065645841247E–324 and positive ...

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