Thanks! I think this was the cleanest/easiest way to handle it.

Elyse

>Or 3) set the colors so that if the date field is empty() it shows white on white. (Or, to be more generic, forecolor = backcolor.) This can be part of the field refresh.
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>>1) Use an unbound input character based control and in the lost focus, validate and replace your date field.
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>>2) Overlay two controls, one for display (unbound character) and one for input (bound date). In the got and lost focus events make the the appriate ones visible/invisible.
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>>>When I'm displaying fields that contain empty dates, I don't want to show the date separator lines. Is there any easy way of hiding them? (VFP6)
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>>>Thanks,
>>>Elyse