Fields: Number or Text?
When you
add a Field for the customer's phone number you may be tempted to
add a Number Field. Indeed, there are many Number Formats (Currency,
Percent, Decimals). But, a phone number is really a Text Field: it
uses punctuation to separate the Area Code from the number. For
example: (810) 555-1212, where (810) is the Area Code. Can a Text
Field be formatted for phone numbers?
2.
Try it: Find More Fields
Go to
Table Tools ->Fields->Add & Delete.
Go to
More Fields.
What Do
You See? The list includes:
Basic
Types
Number
Date and
Time
Yes/No
Quick
Start
Try
This, Too: Add the Phone Fields
Go to
Table Tools ->Fields->Add & Delete.
Go to
More Fields-->Quick Start-> Phone.
Keep going.