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David Clement 
      
4 years ago
Could you please advise.
I have a form that has 500+ records in it. As the Data was being input into the form, the date may or may not be in date order, oldest to newest or newest to oldest. My table however, does show oldest to newest, which is what I want. Is it possible to make my form display oldest to newest? Right now, it's random based on how it was entered.
Thank you.
Dan Jackson  @Reply  
            
4 years ago
Hi
Set up a query, set your sort order in there and then change the control source on your form to the query
Kevin Robertson  @Reply  
          
4 years ago
There is an Order By Property in the property sheet, or you could set the Record Source to an SQL statement with an Order By clause.
Scott Axton  @Reply  
        
4 years ago
Seems a revisit of the courses and the TechHelp may be in order.  That is the beauty of video.  You can watch more than once.  ( or if you are like me 10 times :-)  )

If you check out the Access Index
and type Ctrl-F a search for SORT produces 104 matches.  ORDER BY produces another 16 matches.
The one in Expert 3 looks like it might be of real use to you.

I can't find it right off the top but there was a video where Richard showed how to use the label in a continuous form to sort the records.  It might have been the Search Form 2.0 video.
Kevin Robertson  @Reply  
          
4 years ago
Scott Was it the Payables Seminar you were thinking of?
Scott Axton  @Reply  
        
4 years ago
Kevin I missed that one.

Richard has covered this many times.  Here is what I've found it in addition to the one you listed
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Richard Rost  @Reply  
           
4 years ago
Changing the Order By property of the form should do it. Or a query like Dan suggested. Or the other stuff the guys said. Lots of good options here. More than one way to skin a cat. :)

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