>In a form, I have a user defined property mDate. I set that property to an initial value of date(). I have a text box with the control source set to mDate, but when I run the form the text box is blank. I then added mDate=date() in the init method of the form, but still no go. Any ideas?

Marvin, it will work if you set form.mdate property in a property sheet to

=DATE()

and the textbox.controlsource to

thisform.mdate

Nick