Kirk,

In addition to Cetin's code, if you set each property individually, make sure that you set the .Day property to 1 first. Then set the Year and Month, then set the day to the intended day. Otherwise if the previous value of the day property is 31, when you are changing the month, you will get an error if the new month does not have 31 days in it.

thisform.olecontrol1.objECT.Day=1
thisform.olecontrol1.objECT.Month=MONTH(DATE())
thisform.olecontrol1.objECT.Day=DAY(DATE())
thisform.olecontrol1.object.Year=YEAR(DATE())

HTH,
Kurt