>Thank You...Setting .value to zero works beautiful..
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>Sometimes the answer is right in your face and you never think of it...
OK, I am glad that it worked.
Perhaps an .InputMask might help, too, but I am not so sure.
For dates, BTW, initialize the value to a valid date, e.g. date(), or to an empty date, which you can type like this: {}.
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