#1 - Would suggest that you use newsreader when responding to the messages
to retain a thread of what the conversation is about. anyone reading your
response would have no idea as to what this is in reference to ....in any
case

#2 - "what help file" - since your subject is in reference to "into
access field format" - am assuming you are familair with MS Access and
therefore not sure how differently to state the first sentence in my
original response: " See MS Access help Format Property - Date/Time
Data Type - set your Access field definition accordingly at teh table level
(in your case = Short Time for hh:nn format as per your original post).
Alternative is to search Outlook VBA help for "Format".

#3 - This has absolutely nothing to do with outlook custom fields (or
Outlook in general for that matter) but everything to do with dealing with
the DateTime field type. You're question relates to the display format
since your original/question asks how to show 4:13 instead of 4:13:00
AM - The question/issue would be the same if you were inserting another MS
Access table datetime field instead of an Outlook datetime field.

For reference sake - the DATETIME field is stored internally as a "numeric
value" which gets tanslated and displayed according to the "format" rules
established (or to be more specific - it would never internally contain the
characters AM or PM). The format date rules (wherever set/used) govern how
any datetime gets displayed (or what gets extracted from the field). What
you can do is limit the datetime value elements inserted into a datetime
field (i.e. date only with a 00:00:00 time value, no date with time only
etc) but that is completely outside the scope of the original question.

Karl
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"bear" swin_1234[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote in message
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Thank you for the lead. The goal is to have format handled on import.
I am not sure what help file you were talking about in relation to custom
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