Excel stores dates as Date/Time. If your values are being stored as strings
or you are missing a value, then you won't be able to group.

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy


"Krish" wrote in message
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I am trying to create a Pivot table in Excel, using Microsoft Query
linking
to SQL database. SQL stores the date as Date/Time. It becomes impossible
to
group in Excel using Pivot Table, by date/time. I want to create a record
in
Microsoft query using the date field, but convert to Date only as
dd/mm/yyyy
and retain the format as Date and not as Text. I have tried Left(Date,11)
and Convert(VARCHAR,1,101), none of them work. Could someone help me with
the correct syntax. Microsoft query does not recognize MID.

Thanks

Krish