Alan,

Ahh... I should have checked the replies before posting my own. That is exactly the only solution I was able to come up with. Great minds and all the stuff I guess...

Renoir

>AFAIK, the only way to deal with this is to make your textbox accept a string instead of a date, and check the validity yourself.
>
>Alan
>
>>Thanks for the reply. I hope you are not right <s>.
>>
>>If anyone could confirm this it would be great.
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>>Thanks,
>>Einar
>>
>>>I vaguely remember reading once that this is an untrapable error. I don't know how long ago, though, so that may have changed in later versions.
>>>
>>>Michelle