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Date Validation in VBA for Excel/Word
Hi again: I checked the CDate() function a couple of days ago and it's better than Excel for extracting dates from various date strings. Use CDate() to get your input into Date type. Precede the call with an On Error Goto Err_Datetext statement pointing to your error code. CDate will throw a...- FUBARinSFO
- Post #6
- Forum: VBA Visual Basic for Applications (Microsoft)
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Date Validation in VBA for Excel/Word
Hi: My usual quick and dirty method to check the validity of the date field in cleaning up input files is to put the data in a text file (.txt) and then open it with Excel. Use tab-separated data fields. What Excel can't interpret as a date shows up very clearly. -- Roy Zider JAN. 12, 2005...- FUBARinSFO
- Post #5
- Forum: VBA Visual Basic for Applications (Microsoft)
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How to Test and Restore?
Do any of the current versions of BE have "compare after backup"? The BE 4.x or so that I used a while ago did (Seagate), and that is what I always used to ensure the backups were good (short of doing a full restore as suggested above). Note that this is not the same as...- FUBARinSFO
- Post #11
- Forum: Data Recovery general discussion
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Is Backup Exec The Most Troublesome Software Ever
I agree -- one of the most frustrating pieces of software I've ever used. Here's an example: it does not have compare functionality. All it does is a simple checksum that a tape (or backup folder) is readable. The earlier Seagate Backup had this, and the compare after backup was very useful...- FUBARinSFO
- Post #24
- Forum: Data Recovery general discussion
