>>>That's okay...I almost cut to the chase a recommended a textbox with a controlsource myself. But I was curious about where he had the code...I can only guess that he put it in the init() method.
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>>>>Sorry, my crystal ball malfunctioned this time. :)
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>>>>>Hey! I was going to lead him down a trail to discover the solution himself! :)
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>>While it breaks encapsulation a little I would put the code to set the caption of the label in the textbox containing the date. Sometimes you want the LOOK and FEEL of a caption so don't want to use a textbox for that.
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>I hear what you're saying...but you can give it the look of a caption by setting backstyle to transparent, the borderstyle to none, and making it readonly. I have a textbox class set up for this purpose. Then you can let the controlsource do the work.

That should ought to work if you remember to turn off tabstop.