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Part II: Using Functions in Your Formulas
Table 9-3: Examples of Text Criteria
Criteria Selects
=“=January” Records that contain the text January (and nothing else). You enter this exactly as shown:
as a formula, with an initial equal sign. Alternatively, you can use a leading apostrophe and
omit the quotes:
‘=January
January Records that begin with the text January.
C Records that contain text that begins with the letter C.
C* Records that contain any text, except text that begins with the letter C.
>=L Records that contain text that begins with the letters L through Z.
*County* Records that contain text that includes the word county.
Sm* Records that contain text that begins with the letters SM.
s*s Records that contain text that begins with S and has a subsequent occurrence of the letter S.
s?s Records that contain text that begins with S and has another S as its third character. Note
that this does not select only three-character words.
=”=s*s” Records that contain text that begins and ends with S. You enter this exactly as shown: as
a formula, with an initial equal sign. Alternatively, you can use a leading apostrophe and
omit the quotes:
‘=s*s
*c Records that contain text that does not end with the letter C.
=???? Records that contain exactly four letters.
????? All records that don’t contain exactly five letters.
*c* Records that do not contain the letter C.
~? Records that contain a single question mark character. (The tilde character overrides the
wildcard question mark character.)
= Records that contain a blank.
Records that contain any nonblank entry.
=”=c” Records that contain the single character C. You enter this exactly as shown: as a formula, with
an initial equal sign. Alternatively, you can use a leading apostrophe and omit the quotes:
‘=c
Specifying multiple criteria
Often, you may want to select records based on criteria that use more than one field or multiple
values within a single field. These selection criteria involve logical OR or AND comparisons.
Following are a few examples of the types of multiple criteria that you can apply to the real
estate database:
A list price less than $250,000, and square footage of at least 2,000
A single-family home with a pool
At least four bedrooms, at least three bathrooms, and square footage less than 3,000