>>Can someone give me the proper way to input a date into the built in dialog box that prompts for input when trying to browse a view in design mode? I have tried various combos like {^2002-01-01} or CTOD("01/01/2001") etc. and all I get are operator/operand mismatches and ambiguous date complaints no matter what I try. If I set my input variable from the Command Window with any of the above forms it flies like a champ. What does this dialog box want? Thanks.
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>I know I am being ever so helpful, but this has been fixed in VFP 7.

Very helpful, Mark! After a lengthy thread (for me) today, just having it confirmed as a "to be fixed" bug is very reassuring. After RTFM many times and trying to make strictdate=1 to work with the blasted thing, it was just maddening to get nowhere. "It's a bug". End of problem. Back into lurk mode.