Okay I have a cboMonth and a cboYear

My database has records from 10/4/94-present (in x/x/xx format) the field in my database is DATE_OPENED and the table is called MASTER. If my user selects January from the cbo box and "1994" from the other user box; what code would return the value of all records in for DATE_OPENED IN THAT TIME FRAME. I want a total of all the records in putted for January 1994. How do I do this when the format in the database is x/x/xx. I have asked for help with this before and got some date part type examples, but they did not work. How would I go about doing this anyone have sample code that could help me out. I also need to get totals such as all the Telephone calls made in a certain date range, etc. I know how to return the value of all the records for TELEPHONE, but I don't know how to extract them by date. I could really use some good sample code!!!