change text format in one column to date format in another

[Guest]

I have a column of dates fomated as text. They appear as yyyymmdd. When I
try to reformat as the column as date, Access says it can't do it. How can I
reformat the column so that the dates appear as yymmdd i.e. 041021

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[John Vinson]

I have a column of dates fomated as text. They appear as yyyymmdd. When I
try to reformat as the column as date, Access says it can't do it. How can I
reformat the column so that the dates appear as yymmdd i.e. 041021

P

This isn't a "format" issue - it's a datatype issue. A Text field and
a Date/Time field are two different datatypes, stored in different
ways.

I would suggest that you open your table in design view and add a
*new* field, using the Date/Time datatype. Then run an Update query
updating this field to

CDate(Mid([textdate], 5, 2) & "/" & Right([textdate], 2) & "/" &
Left([textdate], 4)

This will load the field with an actual numeric date/time value. You
can set the Format property of this field to yymmdd (or to any other
valid date format).

John W. Vinson[MVP]
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