[mso] Re: Access 2002: Date Filter Formula Calculation Help Needed!

Thanks James - how do I do that - convert it to numeric?  The field seems
to have a 4 digit year, and I saw a couple of instances where it was 2
digit as in 04.  The others appeared null, but we don't think so now based
on Jim's help.  Am trying to work it out, all ideas welcome, thanks.



                                                                                
                                   
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Cathy,

Is the date field always a four digit year or null or is it sometimes =
something completely different?  From the error it appeared you were =
getting it looks like it is only the four digit year (when you convert =
it into a date it will start at 12/31/1899 as day 0 and count forward I =
believe, hence your 1905 dates).  What you could do is since the field =
appears to be text, convert it to a numeric value and simple subtract =
from the Datepart("yyyy", Date()) function.  This would give you how =
many years old it is.

Try it and see if that doesn't give you what you want.

James

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Subject: [mso] Re: Access 2002: Date Filter Formula Calculation Help
Needed! :VSMail mx4

The plot thickens, Jim . . . !!  You're right, the blanks aren't blanks =
and apparently the years aren't years . . . . when I plugged this into a
new
field: YRConvert1: CStr(Format([year],"yyyy")),  ALL dates except null
converted to 1905.  Ouch, I was hoping I could find a way to filter out
projects that were closed more than 2 years ago, my tables are really
getting huge, but don't have any control over the table that stores
whatever data they're plugging in to the 'year' field.

I don't really know where to go from here . . . . any ideas?  Thank you =
so much for hanging in there with this. :)
Cathy





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