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Article ID: 248222 - Last Review: October 31, 2003 - Revision: 3.0
Query2000: "Syntax Error (Missing Operator)..." Error Performing Query with a Date
This article was previously published under Q248222
When you enter a date in the Criteria pane of your query, you receive an error message similar to the following
Syntax error (missing operator) in query expression '(Table Name.Fieldname=ts '100-11-16 00:00:00'})'.
where
Table Name is the name of the table and
Fieldname is the name of the field that you are querying.
This issue occurs when the following conditions are true:
- You enter a date value that does not include the year.
-and-
- The current date setting on your computer is later than December 31, 1999.
To resolve this problem, obtain Microsoft Office 2000 Service Release 1/1a (SR-1/SR-1a).
To obtain SR-1/SR-1a, click the
article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
245025Â
(http://kbalertz.com/Feedback.aspx?kbNumber=245025/EN-US/
)
OFF2000: How to Obtain and Install Microsoft Office 2000 Service Release 1/1a (SR-1/SR-1a)
To temporarily work around this problem, always specify the year portion of the date when your system clock is set to a date later than December 31, 1999.
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.
This problem was corrected in Microsoft Office 2000 SR-1/SR-1a.
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Excel 2000 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Query 2000
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