>Bruce,
>I've had excellent results using two text boxes, one with the date (for data entry) and a second for display. I use the currentcontrol property to switch back and forth.

Hi Barbara - This is read-only, so I don't have that problem, I just need to display as blank all the empty date fields...I was hoping someone had a qickie Format/InputMask way of solving this, but apparently there isn't one...