Notice: This website is an unofficial Microsoft Knowledge Base (hereinafter KB) archive and is intended to provide a reliable access to deleted content from Microsoft KB. All KB articles are owned by Microsoft Corporation. Read full disclaimer for more details.

Default values for the AllowZeroLength field properties and for the Indexed field properties that you create in Access 2002, in Access 2003, or in Access 2007 may differ from earlier versions of Access


View products that this article applies to.

This article applies only to a Microsoft Access database (.mdb).

Novice: Requires knowledge of the user interface on single-user computers.

↑ Back to the top


Introduction

This article describes the default values for the AllowZeroLength field properties and for the Indexed field properties. When you create a new table in Microsoft Office Access, the default values for the AllowZeroLength field properties and for the Indexed field properties may differ from the default values in earlier versions of Access.

↑ Back to the top


More information

You can you create a table with a field that contains any one of the following data types in an Access database:
  • Text
  • Memo
  • Hyperlink
Note The default values for the AllowZeroLength field properties and for the Indexed field properties may differ from the default values of the field properties in Access 2000.

The following table describes the default values of the field properties that correspond to the specified fields in the different versions of Access:
Collapse this tableExpand this table
AllowZeroLengthIndexed

Microsoft Office Access 2003
Microsoft Access 2002
TextYesNo
MemoYesNo
HyperlinkYesNo
Microsoft Access 2000
TextNoNo
MemoNo<Not Specified>
HyperlinkNo<Not Specified>

You must make sure that when you create a table in an Access database that you explicitly set the values of the AllowZeroLength field properties and of the Indexed field properties so that these field properties correspond to the Text data type, to the Memo data type, or to the Hyperlink data type.

↑ Back to the top


References

For more information about available data types and field properties, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
824263� Information about data types and field properties that can be used in an Access database
For more information about the AllowZeroLength field property in Access 2000, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
209098� Using the AllowZeroLength and Required properties
210278� How to set AllowZeroLength Property to Yes in all tables

↑ Back to the top


Keywords: KB837147, kbinfo, kbdatabase, kbproperties, kbfield, kbtable

↑ Back to the top

Article Info
Article ID : 837147
Revision : 2
Created on : 6/4/2007
Published on : 6/4/2007
Exists online : False
Views : 366