Type Conversion Functions in Microsoft Access: CCur, CDate, CDbl, CDec, CInt, CLng, CStr, and More.

In this Microsoft Access tutorial I'm going to teach you how to take text from one field in your database and convert it to another format like a date using the built-in type conversion functions.
Charlotte from Raleigh, North Carolina (a Platinum Member) asks: I get a spreadsheet from one of my suppliers and dates are formatted as YYYYMMDD. After I import them into my database, they come in as text. How can I get them into a normal date field? If I try importing them into a date field, I get a "type conversion failure" error. Help!
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[@fotiosfotinakis8359]

ISO 8601: great date format. I, too, just accepted its use in Windows. Conversion functions: powerful tool, thank you!

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You always save the day! Thank you so much.

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[@homosapiene100]

Hi Richard, Love your simple tutorial for a beginner like me. I am think of using access in setting up my paint formulation work. I am more use to excel. In excel you can copy formula and paste it as value, but there is no such function in Access. I had to enter the formula value manually in another field. Is there a Function in Access to do it ? Is there a macro to do it as well with a button ? Many thanks

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