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Microsoft Access SQL View - removes spaces, line breaks etc

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hotbread

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Is there any way to stop Microsoft Access from auto-formatting the SQL text? Specifically, I like to arrange my SQL text with blank lines and spaces to make it easier to read, but after saving it and re-opening it, the extra lines and spaces have been removed.

For example... the following SQL:

SELECT field1
, field2
, field3

FROM table1

WHERE field1 = 1

becomes...

SELECT field1, field2, field3
FROM table1
WHERE field1=1


Obviously, the above query is simple enough that this change doesn't matter, but when I have much more complicated queries and subqueries, the text arrangement is more important. Can this auto-arrangement of text in Access be turned off?
 
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