Q: AW Database: duplicating a field to every record.

You can duplicate a record, with all its fields (command-d), so that you can modify the ones you need to - useful when some of the fields don't have to be changed.

Or you can set a field to auto-populate - perhaps that's nearer to what you want?

Stephen Bunker wrote:

 

I need to copy the same field for every record in the database, not just the field from one record.

if you make a new layout. which includes only the field in question, does that do what you want? You can then select all and copy.

Field G (called 'Field 2' in this example) should be a calculation field as shown here: