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Convert string to date

Zone: Microsoft Access Database

Tags: date, convert, string

I'm working with calendar data exported from Outlook. For some reason, Outlook exports the data as text, not a date/time variable, so I need to convert the data to date/time before I can work with it.

I tried the following:

Private Sub Clean1_Click()
Dim datStartDate2 As Date
Dim strStartDate As String

StartDate.SetFocus
strStartDate = StartDate.Text
datStartDate2 = CDate(strStartDate)
StartDate2.SetFocus
StartDate2.Text = datStartDate

End Sub

but keep coming up with a type mismatch error.

I also tried DateValue instead of CDate but still got a type mismatch error.

I've tried dim-ing datStartDate2 as Date and as Var but still get that error.

Any suggestions?

Kitty

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Zone: Microsoft

Question Asked By: prettykittyq

Solution Provided By: cactus_data

Participating Experts: 4

Solution Grade: A

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