MS Query Criteria to exclude data containing certain letters

[AquaEnglish]

I am working on a multi-table query that has a field for job_id. The job_id formatting varies some formatted with a beginning letter followed by numbers, some all numbers. I have input criteria to rule out job_ids containing those specific letters. It is mostly working, my my table is still showing about 10 job_ids beginning with "S"
As you can see in my attached screenshots, we've tried adding different variations of the letters we are trying to exclude. If we remove those, the full job list does come back, so it's working, just not on those 10 or so records??
Any ideas on where to start with this issue?

 

[smozgur]

Welcome to the MrExcel Message Board!

Actually, "%S%" should work, in fact, you don't even need "%[S]%" in that case.

I wonder if you have any OR criteria in your query that overwrites the previous rule.

Also, being not sure if you want some job_id values with other letters, if you only need the numeric values, then IsNumeric(jobs.job_id) could be a better solution.

 

[AquaEnglish]

Welcome to the MrExcel Message Board!

Actually, "%S%" should work, in fact, you don't even need "%[S]%" in that case.

I wonder if you have any OR criteria in your query that overwrites the previous rule.

Also, being not sure if you want some job_id values with other letters, if you only need the numeric values, then IsNumeric(jobs.job_id) could be a better solution.

I will give this a try! Thank you