>What's the best way to reset a date or date/time field in a record. For example, I put a date or date/time in a field in a record and then later I decide to blank it out. How should I do it to prevent Data Type Mismatch or some other error?
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>Also, I also put the date or date/time field in a textbox on a form and want to give the user the option to blank out the date or date/time field in the textbox on the form. What's the best way to do that too?
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>The Date and Date/Time values are coming from the system and getting plugged into the record and the form when the user clicks a checkbox.
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>Thanks for the advice. I have my own so-so way of doing it, but there must be a nicer way to do it. I have lots of books, but they don't cover this topic very well.
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The other guys have already given you the right answer. However, a "back-door" way to do it (at least for Dates) is to set the value to an invalid date e.g.

MyDate = {99/99/1999}

This does NOT throw an error - the value of MyDate becomes an empty date. You can use this "feature" to validate user input, etc.