Take a look at Thread #540115 Message #540476.

>I am having a problem with crystal reports vs 8.5. I have a table created in
>vfp6 that is input to crystal thru ODBC. Works great except crystal prints a
>date of 12/30/99 for any date that is blank in a data record. Has anyone run
>into this before and how can I get crystal to default to ' / / ' . These
>are not null dates. The table default for this date field is ' / / '
>
>TIA
>
>Bill