Hi,

Not sure if this is possible but is there a way in access for a date/time field to have the text "To be confirmed" if no date is entered.

I am creating a courses database and some courses do not have dates yet as they are looking for suitable venues.

Is this possible?

in a report yes - in a table - no

basically the code will be
if datedfield = null then
a field on report "To be confirmed "

reasoning behind this is a field is pre-formated so date field must have dates and number fields must have numbers ( so no letters)

I will be tring the following in ASP code and hat should work in my opinion:

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Dim i as Integer

For i = 1 To oRecordSet.RecordCount
If IsNull(oRecordSet!DateTimeColumnName) Then
Response.Write("To Be Confirmed")
Else
Response.Write(oRecordSet!DateTimeColumnName)
End If
Next i

Gary's point is that you can DISPLAY anything you want but you can only STORE a date.

As stated you cannot store text in a date field.
If you are only concerned with seeing "To Be Confirmed" on the form you could put a label next to the date field that displays TBC when the date is null (no need to store in db. Alternatively you could play around with laying a label over the top of the date field and switching focus and visiblility when TBC is clicked on.

Ant

Quicker, one-line way to set this:

YourDateField = Nz(YourDateField,"TBC")

Look up the Nz Function if that doesn't make sense.