Assign textvalues to the different selections of an option group

[Swamphen]

Hello,

I hava a database built by a form.

In that form I hava a few option groups, for instance:

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Riverwidth |
|
* uniform |
|
* variable |
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If one enables the radiobutton next to "uniform", the database stores the value 1. If "variable" is selected,
the value 2 will appear in the database.

I would like to read in the Access table from a Java program and I would not like to manually type in the different possibilities for each option group (like: if (value == 1) riverwidth = "uniform", since this is not a very professional way to do it.

So, my question:

- can the value stored in the database be changed to "uniform" or "variable" (for the shown example) without having to re-enter all the records.

- can the value be derived from somewhere within Access. And
this without making a new table for each option group showing the different possiblities (I know this is a fairly
good solution, but for reasons I'm not getting in to here I can't use that solution at the moment).

Many thank you's,

Swamphen