OK, I figured out how to make a dynamic parameter. Someone please pinch me...something's going right for a change. I was in SQL mode and didn't take the time to examine the possibilities in Microsoft Query itself. Just so y'all can celebrate with me, I actually have a completed project with all components working as desired. This is a first for the past 12 months! It's very sad but true. sigh. Thanks for the help. /g -----Original Message----- From: Glenda Wells [mailto:gwells@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 3:28 PM To: 'mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [mso] Excel-Microsoft Query I'm very proud of myself. I wrote this in Microsoft Query which works pretty great for my purposes. I even figured out how to take the text field AvtyComment and multiply it by 1 so I could get a number value. Yea me! Actually, I probably got that from this list somewhere but I'm giving myself credit for remembering it. Anyway, I would like the date field DataStuAvty.ActivityDate to be dynamic if that's possible so we can query by date without having to edit the query each time. I tried putting the ampersand in like in Oracle but it didn't work. Any ideas welcome. /g SELECT DataStu.LastName, DataStu.FirstName, DataStu.MiddleName, DataStu.SSN, DataStuAvty.ActivityDate, DataStuAvty.Activity, DataStuAvty.AvtyComment FROM StetsonDB.dbo.DataStu DataStu, StetsonDB.dbo.DataStuAvty DataStuAvty WHERE DataStu.STUD_PKID = DataStuAvty.STUD_PKID AND ((DataStuAvty.ActivityDate={ts '2002-11-06 00:00:00'}) AND (DataStuAvty.Activity='Application fee')) ORDER BY DataStu.LastName, DataStu.FirstName, DataStu.MiddleName ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=unsubscribe Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles ************************************************************* ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=unsubscribe Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************