Hi George:

You're right it does work however, I had other code in the valid checking for future dates.

local ddate
ddate = this.value > date()
If ddate
=messagebox("You cannot enter a future date for this entry!", 48, "CATS")
Endif
return ddate

If I comment this code out your code works, if I comment out your code this
code the other code works. I wanted separate so to display different
messages.