Can't open sales order for a deleted customer number

[Former Member]

Dear all ,

i have deleted a customer cos it was repeated ,now there were some sales orders where that customer is a sold-to-party

when ever i try to open thous sales orders the systems gives an error message [ no customer record exist for sold to party ******* ]

the sales orders that does not open because of this error are no more wanted

would you advise about how to delete them ?

thanks and best regards

[Former Member]

Create same customer again and try to delete, or else you need to delete directly from table which is nto suggested.

[Former Member]

well,

thanks for the fast reply but

the customer no. is generated automatically and I can't assign the same number again .

[Former Member]

May be you need to check external number in number rante defination and create this customer and again change back to internal number.