How to Separate Debits & Credits From a Single Amount Field in Microsoft Access

In this Microsoft Access tutorial, I will show you how to separate debits and credits from a single transaction amount field, where debits are entered as negative amounts. We'll cover creating a new transaction table, making calculated fields in a query, and displaying totals in a form footer.
Trevor from Redmond, Washington (a Platinum Member) asks: I recently watched your Account Statements video where you show how to create a report that separates the debits from the credits. However, you have debits and credits separated in your table already. I just have one transaction amount field. Is there a way to separate that where it shows debits and credits separately? Where debits are entered as negative amounts, how would I split those?
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Would LOVE to see you make a video about how to select/filter records that match 2 or more criteria on the same field.
Example: you have an expense table and each expense can be categorised with multiple tags. How could you pull out all the expenses that are tagged with 2 particular tags (e.g. food and beef)?

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