Thanks Marcus,

I've set my Date format in Control Panel/Regional Settings to 17-Jan-2005 
format.  

However, even using FormatDate$(OPEN_DATE) my labels still look like this 
01/03/1987 and not like this 01-Mar-1987 

Any ideas?

Zara Taylor
Information Systems Analyst
Customer Insight Unit
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* 020 8718 1752
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-----Original Message-----
From: Markus Lindner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 17 January 2005 14:26
To: Taylor, Zara
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: MI-L Date Format in Labels


Try the FormatDate$ Function,
it prints the date according to your system environment, look at the 
windows control panel for your own local settings

Regards

Markus

Taylor, Zara wrote:

>Dear List,
>
>I have a mappable table of stores with an OPEN_DATE field.
>
>The OPEN_DATE field is in the format 01/03/1987 - I want to label my 
>stores with the date they opened, but I want the label to be in the 
>format March 1, 1987.
>
>How can I do this without having to making extra tables or extra 
>columns in my table?  Is there a function that I can include in my 
>label expression?
>
>Many thanks
>
>Zara Taylor
>
>
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