Is it possible that your question relates to Access and not Excel?

The reference to "database" and query cause me to lean towards Access.
If so please try the MS Access forum.

Dennis



JTurner wrote:
I am trying to run a query of all employees in our database with a
termination date greater than today or is null. The null part is working
fine, but it appears that query doesn't recognize "today()", "date()",
"now()" or any of the other million ways I've tried. Can Query use today's
date in criteria? If so, how? I would prefer not to have to enter the date
using parameter. Thanks!