Craig,

Tks. That took care of the first part.
Now is there an easy way for * me * to check the validity of the date considering it could be in several different format :).

>SET NOTIFY OFF will stop the display of the WAIT WINDOW.
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>>I have an object with a format of 'KD' and would like to be to check for a valid date before VFP 7 displays its 'invalid date' in a wait window.
>>The reason is that I would like to generate all validation type messages in our own formatted message box.
>>Since the user is going to define the format of the date in the application's preferences, the date could be in one of several different format.
>>What is the easiest way to accomplish this task?
>>TIA.