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    Posted: 10 October 2003 at 9:18pm
I want to run a query that will alphabetize a table according to the title of the article, but some of the titles have the word "The" and i dont want it to be alphebtized by "The" but by the word that follows. How do i do this? i imagine its something i have to write within the SQL Statement.
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You will need remove the articles (A, An, The) from the front. I have done this in 2 different ways.

One is to have separate field of for the article (I use an int field with 1=A, 2=An, 3=The, 4=None).

The other is the library method of placing the article at the end with a preceded comma and space. With the second method, I use a VBscript function to strip off the articles from the end and place them at the beginning. You must also have a function to strip them off the beginning for storage in the database.

There is a third way to do it using CASE with SQL Server, but that is not availble with Access. If you use SQL Server, then check out the documentation for CASE.
L. Jamal Walton

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