Hi Rick,

i've implemented my own one.
In the keypress I check if a character is pressed. If so, I empty the controlsource property to allow character to be entered. In the Valid event I check if the value is date or character.

If the users has entered the following characters it calculates the date:

C      Current date
C+1    Tomorrow
C-1    Yesterday
C+2    The day after tommorow
BW     Beginning of this week
BW+1   Beginning of next week
EW     End of this week
BM     Beginning of this month
BM+1   Beginning of next month
BY     Beginning of this year
BY+2   Beginning of the year after next year.
Mo     this monday
Mo+1   Next monday
Tu     Tuesday  
We     Wednesday
...

After this, it resets the controlsource to display the corresponding date.

If a user gets used to this, it's far easier than using a calender control or something. Date entry could be very fast.

Walter,

>OK I admit it, I've led a sheltered life (at least for non-MS and FoxPro developed applications). A user asked for a Date text box that used the "Quicken" style hot keys. I said "No Problem!". Well, I got the fact that '+' advances the day and '-' decrements it, but what are the other conventions that I'll need to implement?
>
>Rick