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The ONLY instance I have come across where it's helpful to use calculated fields in tables is when you have a LOT of data and your reports are taking a LONG time to generate because of complex calculations. I had this one client who had reports that were taking 30 to 60 seconds to generate -...

I know this is an old thread, but for those of you who might stumble upon this problem in the future and come across this, you may be able to fix the problem by making sure that you have MS Paint set up as the DEFAULT HANDLER for images. Just right-click on any BMP / GIF / JPG file in Windows...

Microsoft Access Convert Numbers to Dates This is actually a tutorial I posted on my own web site a while ago... if your numbers are stored as a text field, you might find this helpful once you've already imported your data into your table: AC309: Microsoft Access Convert Numbers to Dates...

Have you tried leaving the data as a number, but formatting the data as a string in a query, and then using that query to do your mail merge? Richard Rost 599CD.com