I did this for abstract of stories published by using  Left(story,200).

Pete Lundrigan 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 5:35 AM
To: ActiveServerPages
Subject: Re: ASP Access and Displaying the first Paragraph

Alex wrote:
: I have an access DB which i have written an ASP front end for.
: On my list page i would like to include a "Teaser" being the first
paragraph
: of what i have in the Synopsis column.
: Is this possible and if so how would this goal be accomplished?
: Thank you all for your time
: Alex Elger

I haven't used Access in a veerrrry long time but I would imagine
that there is a function that takes the first x characters of a column.

In MSSQL, it would be 

select 
  LTrim(Synopsis, 255) AS Teaser
from 
  ....

Actually 
http://www.schemamania.org/jkl/booksonline/SQLBOL70/html/2_005_77.htm

hope that helps



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