>>Combos always contain character strings no matter what data type you populated them with. The dates are converted to a string indise the combo so your variable is thew worng dtat type for the combo (it is date and it needs to be character). To get your date back you will need to convert the data type after the the combo sets the var.
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>Thanks Jim. Will DTOC do the job?
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Ravi,

To get a date value from the combobox you need;

CTOD(Thisform.Combo.Value)

or if you bind the combo to a var (lcDate) you would need to initialize the var to character;

lcDate = ""


and convert it before you use it like;

ldDate = CTOD(lcDate)

All of this will become a nightmare if you have SET STRICTDATE to anything but 0. If it isn't obvious to you yet, combos are not really designed for handling dates.