[AccessD] Technical test for developers

Hi Mark

That's an (the) escape character telling that the next character must
be understood literally.

If this is not included, the slash is interpreted as the date
separator and Access replace it with the character from your local
setting which often can be a "-" or ".".

/gustav


> In the format, I see you using a backslash after the dd and the mm prior to
> the forward slash, I have never seen this done, what is is for?

> Mark

>> >   Format(Date, "MM\/DD\/YYYY")