Mail Merge Wizard Saves Dates in "YYYYMMDD" Format

 Last reviewed: March 20, 1998
Article ID: Q114981 
2.60    | 2.60
WINDOWS | MS-DOS kbtool kbprg

The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft FoxPro for Windows, version 2.6
  • Microsoft FoxPro for MS-DOS, version 2.6

SUMMARY

The Mail Merge Wizard saves dates in a "YYYYMMDD" format, where "Y" represents a year digit, "M" represents a month digit, and "D" represents a day digit.

MORE INFORMATION

FoxPro creates a delimited ASCII text file if you select Word For Windows 2.0, Word For MS-DOS, or Other as the word processor. Date fields are converted to the "YYYYMMDD" date format in the file.

For example, the date, May 7th, 1990, is stored as {05\07\90} in a FoxPro table by default. This date becomes "19900507" (without the quotation marks) when the Mail Merge Wizard stores it in a delimited ASCII text file.

Additional reference words: FoxDos FoxWin 2.60 american century ymd
KBCategory: kbtool kbprg
KBSubcategory: FxinteropWinword

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Last reviewed: March 20, 1998
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