convert text field to a date/time field in access query not working - sql

Question

I'm working with a access database and vb6. My table has a field named "InvoiceDate" which is a text field. I'm not allowed to make database modifications. So I guess my only option is to change the text field into a date/time field in my query. I found several methods to do so. They are as follows.
Format(InvoiceDate, "yyyy/mm/dd")
(DateSerial(Left(InvoiceDate,4),Mid(InvoiceDate,5,2),Right(InvoiceDate,2))
Between #2015/01/01# And #2016/01/01#))
DateValue(InvoiceDate, "yyyy/mm/dd")
CDate(InvoiceDate, "yyyy/mm/dd")
But those 4 methods didn't work. I can't figure out this.
The query I'm using as follows
SELECT Invoice.InvoiceDate, InvoicedProduct.InvoiceType, Invoice.InvoiceStatus,
Invoice.RetailerID, Invoice.DailySalesID, Invoice.RepID,
InvoicedProduct.Quantity, InvoicedProduct.UnitRate,
InvoicedProduct.TotalItemValue
FROM Invoice
INNER JOIN InvoicedProduct
ON (Invoice.DailySalesID = InvoicedProduct.DailySalesID)
AND (Invoice.RepID = InvoicedProduct.RepID)
AND (Invoice.InvoiceID = InvoicedProduct.InvoiceID)
WHERE (((InvoicedProduct.ProductID)='9010001174130.4')
AND (DateValue(Invoice.InvoiceDate) Between #2015/01/01# And #2016/01/01#))
GROUP BY Invoice.InvoiceDate, InvoicedProduct.InvoiceType, Invoice.InvoiceStatus,
Invoice.RetailerID, Invoice.DailySalesID, Invoice.RepID,
InvoicedProduct.Quantity, InvoicedProduct.UnitRate,
InvoicedProduct.TotalItemValue
HAVING (((InvoicedProduct.InvoiceType)='Invoice' OR (InvoicedProduct.InvoiceType)='Sound')
AND ((Invoice.InvoiceStatus)='VALID'))
ORDER BY Invoice.InvoiceDate;
This gives me the error "Data Type mismatch in criteria expression"
Following two types are include in my InvoiceDate Field
2016/01/04 10:00: AM and 2016/01/20 08:25 PM
The only difference is the colon after the time
Please help.
Thank you.

Answer 1

Your criteria:
DateValue(Invoice.InvoiceDate) Between #2015/01/01# And #2016/01/01#
is correct, so the error message indicates, that one or more of your text dates in InvoiceDate don't represent a valid date, like 2015-06-31 or Null.
Run a query to check this:
Select *, IsDate(InvoiceDate) As ValidDate From Invoice
and see if any of the values of ValidDate are False.
To ignore the extra colon:
DateValue(Replace(Invoice.InvoiceDate, ": ", " ")) Between #2015/01/01# And #2016/01/01#