>>>>It works, just type to controlsource '0+ttod(table.field)'. It will make this trick.
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>>>Hi Edward,
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>>>It worked perfectly!! Thanks!!!! Now, I don't understand why it worked. What difference did the 0+ make? How? Thanks again for the help.
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>>It forces VFP to perceive it as expression, just a trick nothing else.
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>Well, it sure is a neat little trick!
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>Something I discovered as I kept working is that for some reason it make the field read-only. But that's okay becuase I set the format back to normal and found how to change the datetime type to date in the view definition.
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>But I sure do appreciate the help!!

Thanks. Any time you use expression as control.controlsource, it makes this control read-only, but underlying field(s) are still read-write.