Eric,
Rather than depending on the built in VFP prompt for the view, you have the user enter the dates on your own form. Then you shouldn't have to set STRICTDATE to zero.
It will look better, too :)
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>Bret,
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>It looks doing [SET STRICTDATE TO 0] is the answer, but I'm not totally sure of the downside.
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>Thanks....
Steve Gibson