Article ID: 248222
Article Last Modified on 10/31/2003
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Excel 2000 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Query 2000
This article was previously published under Q248222
SYMPTOMS
When you enter a date in the Criteria pane of your query, you receive an error message similar to the following
where Table Name is the name of the table and Fieldname is the name of the field that you are querying.
CAUSE
This issue occurs when the following conditions are true:
- You enter a date value that does not include the year.
-and-
- The current date setting on your computer is later than December 31, 1999.
RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, obtain Microsoft Office 2000 Service Release 1/1a (SR-1/SR-1a).
To obtain SR-1/SR-1a, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
245025 OFF2000: How to Obtain and Install Microsoft Office 2000 Service Release 1/1a (SR-1/SR-1a)
To temporarily work around this problem, always specify the year portion of the date when your system clock is set to a date later than December 31, 1999.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was corrected in Microsoft Office 2000 SR-1/SR-1a.
Additional query words: XL2000 y2k
Keywords: kbprb kbpending KB248222
