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Can't find certain date in search
Hi Group,
It's me again....just got a quick question about a date search. I am running a macro that I can enter a date in an input box, and then ask it to search for every date on my log that fits a criteria pertaining to that date..... It will find every date that it is supposed to, i.e. < search date, except ANY dates prior to Oct 1, 2007...(format is 10/1/2007).....I have changed the dates to text to check to see if dates prior to that have the correct numerical format, and they do. Now if I change the macro to search date, the dates prior to Oct 1, 2007 show up along with all the other dates that are actually search date. Has anyone ran into this type of problem, and is there anyway to correct it? Thanks to all! Ken |
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It would help if you posted the code for your search. However, I suspect the
problem is "changed the dates to text". In text, January and October start with the same number, so searching by text dates will always be problematic. In your example, the text string 10/1/2007 comes *before* the string 2/10/2007. Search by real Excel dates. Then you won't have this problem. Regards, Fred. "Ken" wrote in message ... Hi Group, It's me again....just got a quick question about a date search. I am running a macro that I can enter a date in an input box, and then ask it to search for every date on my log that fits a criteria pertaining to that date..... It will find every date that it is supposed to, i.e. < search date, except ANY dates prior to Oct 1, 2007...(format is 10/1/2007).....I have changed the dates to text to check to see if dates prior to that have the correct numerical format, and they do. Now if I change the macro to search date, the dates prior to Oct 1, 2007 show up along with all the other dates that are actually search date. Has anyone ran into this type of problem, and is there anyway to correct it? Thanks to all! Ken |
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Can't find certain date in search
On Jun 30, 7:08*pm, "Fred Smith" wrote:
It would help if you posted the code for your search. However, I suspect the problem is "changed the dates to text". In text, January and October start with the same number, so searching by text dates will always be problematic. In your example, the text string 10/1/2007 comes *before* the string 2/10/2007. Search by real Excel dates. Then you won't have this problem. Regards, Fred. "Ken" wrote in message ... Hi Group, *It's me again....just got a quick question about a date search. I am running a macro that I can enter a *date in an input box, and then ask it to search for every date on my log that fits a criteria pertaining to that date..... * It will find every date that it is supposed to, i.e. < search date, except ANY dates prior to Oct 1, 2007...(format is 10/1/2007).....I have changed the dates to text to check to see if dates prior to that have the correct numerical format, and they do. Now if I change the macro to search date, the dates prior to Oct 1, 2007 show up along with all the other dates that are actually search date. Has anyone ran into this type of problem, and is there anyway to correct it? Thanks to all! Ken- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Hi Fred, Thanks for your answer.... After giving it further thought as I typed this in, my column for the search is in the correct excel date format, but my search value WAS a string, not date, so I changed to "Dim LSearchValue As Date" instead of String, and voila!...it is correct! Thanks Fred for your help! Ken |
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Glad to help. Thanks for your feedback.
Fred. "Ken" wrote in message ... On Jun 30, 7:08 pm, "Fred Smith" wrote: It would help if you posted the code for your search. However, I suspect the problem is "changed the dates to text". In text, January and October start with the same number, so searching by text dates will always be problematic. In your example, the text string 10/1/2007 comes *before* the string 2/10/2007. Search by real Excel dates. Then you won't have this problem. Regards, Fred. "Ken" wrote in message ... Hi Group, It's me again....just got a quick question about a date search. I am running a macro that I can enter a date in an input box, and then ask it to search for every date on my log that fits a criteria pertaining to that date..... It will find every date that it is supposed to, i.e. < search date, except ANY dates prior to Oct 1, 2007...(format is 10/1/2007).....I have changed the dates to text to check to see if dates prior to that have the correct numerical format, and they do. Now if I change the macro to search date, the dates prior to Oct 1, 2007 show up along with all the other dates that are actually search date. Has anyone ran into this type of problem, and is there anyway to correct it? Thanks to all! Ken- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Hi Fred, Thanks for your answer.... After giving it further thought as I typed this in, my column for the search is in the correct excel date format, but my search value WAS a string, not date, so I changed to "Dim LSearchValue As Date" instead of String, and voila!...it is correct! Thanks Fred for your help! Ken |
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