>Is there a way to pull data directly from a form field, instead of from the table that the field reads? I have a command that I need to pull the current record from a date field, subtract it from the system date, and display that information in a window. It works, but once the command is run, it keeps that date value and won't release it. I figure if I can get it to pull from the form field then it can update itself. If anyone has any other ideas, I'll try those as well.

You can create a form property, initialize it and do the data entry on that property instead. So, instead of having alias.field, you would have ThisForm.cProperty has the source of that control.