I'm getting month and year values from a user form. The months are in the
form January, February, etc. and the years are 2004,2005, 2006. I want to
get the date from the entered values and I've used this equation

PlanDate = Date( Me.cboPlanYear.Value, me.cboPlanMonth.Value,1)

For some reason, it gives me a compile error on this statement. What am I
missing?

Thanks

Hi Barb

You must load the combobox with two columns
1 Jan
2 Feb

Hide the first column so you only see the month names
Then use Bound column to read the numbers and not the month name



--
Regards Ron de Bruin
http://www.rondebruin.nl



"Barb Reinhardt" wrote in message
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I'm getting month and year values from a user form. The months are in the
form January, February, etc. and the years are 2004,2005, 2006. I want to
get the date from the entered values and I've used this equation

PlanDate = Date( Me.cboPlanYear.Value, me.cboPlanMonth.Value,1)

For some reason, it gives me a compile error on this statement. What am I
missing?

Thanks

first, Date is what you would use in a worksheet,

DateSerial would be used in VBA.

But either one expects a number for month. for your values use

PlanDate = DateValue(me.cboPlanMonth.Value & " 1, " & Me.cboPlanYear.Value)


or for international considerations

PlanDate = cDate(me.cboPlanMonth.Value & " 1, " & Me.cboPlanYear.Value)
--
Regards,
Tom Ogilvy


"Barb Reinhardt" wrote:

I'm getting month and year values from a user form. The months are in the
form January, February, etc. and the years are 2004,2005, 2006. I want to
get the date from the entered values and I've used this equation

PlanDate = Date( Me.cboPlanYear.Value, me.cboPlanMonth.Value,1)

For some reason, it gives me a compile error on this statement. What am I
missing?

Thanks

Maybe easier to use the listindex it this case

Fill the combo with month names
and it your Dateserial use

me.cboPlanMonth.ListIndex + 1

--
Regards Ron de Bruin
http://www.rondebruin.nl



"Ron de Bruin" wrote in message ...
Hi Barb

You must load the combobox with two columns
1 Jan
2 Feb

Hide the first column so you only see the month names
Then use Bound column to read the numbers and not the month name



--
Regards Ron de Bruin
http://www.rondebruin.nl



"Barb Reinhardt" wrote in message
...
I'm getting month and year values from a user form. The months are in the
form January, February, etc. and the years are 2004,2005, 2006. I want to
get the date from the entered values and I've used this equation

PlanDate = Date( Me.cboPlanYear.Value, me.cboPlanMonth.Value,1)

For some reason, it gives me a compile error on this statement. What am I
missing?

Thanks