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It's confused because of your formatting of mm-yy.<br />
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Change the report to dd-mmm-yy, and it will export fine.
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It's confused because of your formatting of mm-yy.

Change the report to dd-mmm-yy, and it will export fine.

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Yes that works to export Day, Month, and Year, but my client wants only the month and year in the exported Excel file since it is a billing period not a billing date. &nbsp;They can reformat to mm/yy after opening the Excel file, but would like that to be automatic. &nbsp;Yes it is a cosmetic issue, but that is what they have requested.<br />
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Am I misunderstanding your answer?
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Yes that works to export Day, Month, and Year, but my client wants only the month and year in the exported Excel file since it is a billing period not a billing date.  They can reformat to mm/yy after opening the Excel file, but would like that to be automatic.  Yes it is a cosmetic issue, but that is what they have requested.

Am I misunderstanding your answer?

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Immediate response and followup.
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or change the control source of the period to <br />
=Format([BillingPeriod],&quot;m<wbr />m/yy&quot;)<br />
(requires giving the control another name)
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or change the control source of the period to
=Format([BillingPeriod],"mm/yy")
(requires giving the control another name)

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Exporting my report from Access to Excel causes Date Fields to format incorrectly. &nbsp;This can be resolved by reformatting the date column after exporting, but I would like for that to be automatic.<br />
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Attached is a sample Access database to illustrate the issue<br />
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Open the report and manually export to Excel.<br />
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Windows 7, Access 2010, Excel 2010<br />
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Sample database to illustrated date field export issue

ExportDateIssue.accdb

Exporting my report from Access to Excel causes Date Fields to format incorrectly.  This can be resolved by reformatting the date column after exporting, but I would like for that to be automatic.

Attached is a sample Access database to illustrate the issue

Open the report and manually export to Excel.

Windows 7, Access 2010, Excel 2010

Exporting date fields to Excel

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