What date format are you using?

mm/dd/yyyy will return results.
yyyy-mm-dd will not.

I first used short date as per Richard's example.  When that did not work I tried dd/mm/yyyy which did not work either.

Have you tried it without the /?

LIKE"*2012"

I have just tested it on my copy and do not appear to have any issues. My database is set to dd/mm/yyyy.

This is most likely a regional date setting issue. I saw your screen shots that you emailed me. Post them here if you'd like to show everyone else. This is one of the reasons I strongly recommend everyone use the ISO Date Format.

Instead of that LIKE method I show in the video, I'd recommend creating a new Calculated Field of Year(MyDate) and setting its criteria to whatever year you're looking for, like Year(Date). Much better than the older method I showed in the video.

It worked by setting the date format in windows settings to the ISO format but I had to change the string from "*/2012" to "/2012*".
In the result it still showed up as per my date setting in the table, dd/mm/yyyy.

I've got a video planned for this coming up soon... After the power is back on.