Datepart issue

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Thomas Rector

Office XP XP home PIV 1.8 512mb

I have a funny problem, I am using the expression below in a query,
(design view)
Expr2: DatePart("q",[dateofevent])+1

The date format (dateofevent) is short date, ex=10/31/2004.

Criteria should be 1,2,3, 4 for quarter selection,
But this is the results,
1= nothing
2= Jan Feb Mar
3= Apr May Jun
4= Jul Aug Sep
5= Oct Nov Dec

How do I get 1 to = Oct Nov Dec (which is my 1st qtr) ???
Thanks for any direction you can provide !!

Tom Rector
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Subtract 3 months before asking for the quarter:
DatePart("q", DateAdd("m", -3, [dateofevent]))
 
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