Date entry for current year

I would like to be able to enter a date MMDD without having to enter a year,
with the year being presumed to be the current year.

Anne

If you have a table with a date/time-type field, and if you bind a form
control to that field, you can enter:

1/11

and hit enter or tab. Access assumes that any such entry in a date/time
field without a year showing must be in the current year.

Good luck!

Regards

Jeff Boyce
Microsoft Access MVP

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"Anne" wrote in message
...
I would like to be able to enter a date MMDD without having to enter a
year,
with the year being presumed to be the current year.

Yes that works.
Anyway one can do it without the slash, like 0111?

"Jeff Boyce" wrote:

Anne

If you have a table with a date/time-type field, and if you bind a form
control to that field, you can enter:

1/11

and hit enter or tab. Access assumes that any such entry in a date/time
field without a year showing must be in the current year.

Good luck!

Regards

Jeff Boyce
Microsoft Access MVP

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in this post. Mention and/or description of a product or service herein
does not constitute endorsement thereof.

Any code or pseudocode included in this post is offered "as is", with no
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possible/necessary.

"Anne" wrote in message
...
I would like to be able to enter a date MMDD without having to enter a
year,
with the year being presumed to be the current year.


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On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:09:01 -0800, Anne
wrote:

Yes that works.
Anyway one can do it without the slash, like 0111?

You can use an inputmask such as 00/00 to allow the user to just use four
keystrokes (0111); Access will fill in the slash for you.

Or you can use VBA code in the control's BeforeUpdate event to insert a slash.
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