>Fred, you are wrong. And your solution does not help users who do data entry for a living. Right arrow, right arrow, then the number. This is not efficient.
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>Also, and more importantly, what you said would produce 2099/05/01 as the date. Not the desired 1999/05/01.
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>Joe
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You are correct. I did it with an empty date field.
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>>>>>If you show 4 digits, you have to enter 4 digits when you enter dates in the YMD format.
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>>>>>Joe
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>>>>Not true! You CAN enter only 2 digits, no matter what the format is.
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>>>Then why when I tab to a field that is showing 2001/01/02, and I enter the keystrokes 990501
does it not work? It tries to put the date 9905/01... into the field.
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>>You must move between the segments manually. It WILL try to enter 4 digits for the year before it moves to the next segment. You can enter the value as < right arrow > < right arrow > 990501 and that will work. I didn't say it was easy... ;)
