David Wilson wrote: > > I would have thought that only 0/0/00 would display as <NO DATE> while > 1/1/00 would be quite valid. I guess I should try this out. Sorry, misunderstanding! In the date field, the month and day are stored zero-based. I.E. January is stored as 0, February as 1, etc. So on Jan 1, 2000 the field will be all zeroes. Pim Blokland Sorry, no e-mail.