[AccessD] Date field sort

Are you applying a format to the Date field in the query underlying the 
report?  That will have this sort of effect.  As a general rule, you 
shouldn't do any formatting of data in queries which are used for reports. 
Do all of the formatting in the report 

On 5 Jan 2007 at 10:03, Elam, Debbie wrote:

> I have an odd problem with a report that sorts on a date field.
> 
> 3 times now for no reason I can discern the sorting gets strange.  The first
> time it happened, I used Cdate([MyDateField]) and it started sorting
> correctly again.  Then I had to take the Cdate() off, then put it on again.
> Only one or the other works, but they alternate.  
> 
> The wrong sorts will sort like a string.  Months are grouped together
> regardless of year and december comes before January.  And yes, I have had
> it sort like a string when I used Cdate().  
> 
> Has anyone seen anything like this in the past?
> 
> Debbie
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