Microsoft KB Archive/209557

= ACC2000: Date/Time Data Type Provides Current Year Automatically =

Article ID: 209557

Article Last Modified on 6/24/2004

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Access 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q209557



Novice: Requires knowledge of the user interface on single-user computers.

For a Microsoft Access 2002 version of this article, see 286446.



SUMMARY
If you enter a partial date in a field that is assigned the Date/Time data type, Microsoft Access fills in the current year automatically.



MORE INFORMATION
If your field is assigned the Date/Time data type and you want to indicate the current year, you do not have to type the year. This feature works for both tables and forms.

To illustrated this behavior, follow these steps:   Create a new table, as follows:   Table: DateTable Field Name: My Date [primary key] Data Type: Date/Time  On the View menu, click Datasheet View. Type 1/1, and then press TAB to leave the field. Note that the value that you entered is displayed as 1/1/ .

Additional query words: misc date/time inf

Keywords: kbhowto KB209557

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