>Jon,
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>Darn typo's.
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>I took your advice and and tried the record selection formula "mc.date_cert = date(1899,12,30) but still no luck.
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>To make sure I checked my table out again and out of a totla of 1,030 records there are 477 with no date in the date_cert field, so I know the table is okay.
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>I tried this "mc.date_cert = date(1999,9,15)" and three records appeared in the report which is acurate.
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>The "mc.date_cert = date(1899,12,30)" still shows no records :(
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>There are no other selection criteria.
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>This is a free table in the old fox2x type structure.
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>I hope I'm not doing something stupid but I didn't think it should be this difficult.
>


Are you using ODBC to access the data? Crystal Reports will natively read a Fox2x table without going through ODBC.