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    Problem with date when importing

    Hello! I am trying to import an excel file to access. I have managed to import successfully. However, my date column is in the excel spreadsheet which looks as such eg 4-Feb-09 is changed to 4/2/09 in access after it has been imported. I have tried to keep the date's column as text datatype or datetime datatype. But both does not work. Hope someone could clear my doubt. Thks!! Any help is appreciated.

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    You need DateTime.

    Then change the format to whatever you want.

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    I have used DateTime datatype. However it still does not work

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    What format you you have?

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    ds_8805 is offline Novice
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    actually I just managed to solve this problem..I realised I din set the format properly. Thanks for ur help.

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    Glad you got it.

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