MS Access Macro

Please help. I have a database which has a report. The report has a query which needs to check that a field contains a date in a certain format. The date is written as the year, month, and day put together into one string. For example today would be written as 20010730. How can I use MS Access to get the values that are greater than the current date. Or even more simply how can I get the values of the current month, day, and year. I know this is a lot to ask for but any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Calvin

Since you always user 8 digits for the date, you might as wel evaluate it as a number, and you then sort it. Let's write it down:

2001/07/01 -> 20010731
is later (bigger) than
2001/06/28 -> 20010628



Also, to get a specific part of a date, you can use the DatePart function.

DatePart("d","2001/06/28") ' would give 28
DatePart("m","2001/06/28") ' would give 6
DatePart("yyyy","2001/06/28") ' would give 2001




Tom Cannaerts
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I can't get the MS Access Query Builder to use any code to query one column to be greater than the current date. Like I could just write in the criteria row:
>20010730 and that works but I wanted to get this to happen automatically. I thought I would be able to figure it out but had no luck.
Thanks again.