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By Richard Rost   Richard Rost on LinkedIn Email Richard Rost   4 days ago

Remove Spaces, Tabs & Breaks in Access Text Fields


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In this Microsoft Access tutorial, I will show you how to clean up messy text fields by removing extra spaces, tabs, and line breaks. We will use VBA programming to create a "fix it" button that automates text formatting, ensuring your database entries are tidy and easy to read.

Lila from Cerritos, California (a Platinum Member) asks: I have a lot of text fields in my Access database where I copy stuff from Word documents and emails, and the text is always messy. People type two spaces after periods, use a bunch of spaces instead of tabs, and sometimes there are way too many line breaks between paragraphs. Is there an easy way to clean all this up in Access so it looks better and is easier to read?

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In the extended cut, we will learn how to automate the process of importing multiple text files into the Access database using a custom function. I will show you how to loop through text files in a folder, import them as contacts, fix them using our previously created "fix it" function, and then delete them by sending them to the recycle bin.

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