>>>>We are using the date/time picker active-x control. >
>>>Lovely. And, of course, I can't find any references to it in Help....
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>>Well, at least I found it eventually, even if it wasn't obvious... I had to >Right-Click and choose Help. Searching in MSDN didn't help me....
>
>So what was the solution to a blank date?

Sorry, I didn't find _that_: I meant that searching the Help files didn't turn up any references, but that right-clicking did.