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    elhale is offline Novice
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    Format Unbound Text Box to Display Medium Date Format

    I have a report I produce from my DB that includes two unbound text boxes used to show dates (a Start and an End date) in the title of the report. The dates are pulled from a Date Entry form used by the user to select the date range of the report. Currently the report works fine and the dates show up in the title of the report just as expected. What I would like to do now is format the dates into a medium date format. (i.e., December 14, 2016 as opposed to the current short format, i.e., 12/4/2016) Can anyone help me with how to format the textbox so the date will display as a medium date format? Thanks

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    Put the header in the report query,then you can format it at will....
    Header: format(forms!myForm!txtStart,"mmmm dd,yyyy") & " to " & format(forms!myForm!txtEnd,"mmmm dd,yyyy")

    then the report just pints to this field.

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    ssanfu is offline Master of Nothing
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    Open the report in design view.
    Click on the date text box.
    Open the property dialog box. (double click on the outside line)
    Click on the FORMAT tab.
    Set the Format property to the date format you want. (medium date)

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    elhale is offline Novice
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    ranman and ssanfu, Thank you both! I appreciate your help. Looks like using the Format property worked perfectly! Thanks again!

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