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>>>It's even easier. In the Control.Value in the designer, put {} as the value or in the Init put This.Value= {}. Better yet, subclass the textbox and create a date box. In the KeyPress you can add code to make it work like the datebox in Quicken.
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>>You don't really need to add code to make it work like Quicken. If you highlight the field (all selected), the + and - keys will increment/decrement the date respectively. Been this way since VFP5, at least.
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>But Quicken also has hot keys specified such as m to go to first day of month, h to go to last, etc.

True. I had forgotten about those. Anyways, I use my own class that lets you highlight any part of the date (month, day or year), and then the +/- increments/decrements just that piece.