For the past week I've been able to enter the current date into a DB sub form 
field with formatted field using Ctrl = ; but now it's not working properly. 
Instead of entering the date, it moves the cursor to the center of the 
formatted field, and inserts nothing. I'm wondering what could have changed. 

I went directly to the sub form deleted the formatting, then redid it. But 
it's still not working even there in the sub form alone.

My sincere thanks for any help you may offer.
-- 
Norm Shimmel
Butler, PA

Strange that I should reply to my own message. But I was just surprised to 
find this message posted in "Eggheadcafe.com".

Is it normal to find messages here published elsewhere. I'm not 
complaining--especially if it helps solve the problem. I'm just surprised.

If this is caused by someone seeking to help me, I thank you. Any help is 
appreciated.
-- 
Norm Shimmel
Butler, PA


"NES" wrote:

> For the past week I've been able to enter the current date into a DB sub form 
> field with formatted field using Ctrl = ; but now it's not working properly. 
> Instead of entering the date, it moves the cursor to the center of the 
> formatted field, and inserts nothing. I'm wondering what could have changed. 
> 
> I went directly to the sub form deleted the formatting, then redid it. But 
> it's still not working even there in the sub form alone.
> 
> My sincere thanks for any help you may offer.
> -- 
> Norm Shimmel
> Butler, PA

More information on the Ctrl + ; date entry problem. 

The problem goes away if I remove the input mask 99/99/0000;0;_

Are the two not compatible?  Can someone duplicate this problem?

Thanks again for any help you may offer.

-- 
Norm Shimmel
Butler, PA


"NES" wrote:

> Strange that I should reply to my own message. But I was just surprised to 
> find this message posted in "Eggheadcafe.com".
> 
> Is it normal to find messages here published elsewhere. I'm not 
> complaining--especially if it helps solve the problem. I'm just surprised.
> 
> If this is caused by someone seeking to help me, I thank you. Any help is 
> appreciated.
> -- 
> Norm Shimmel
> Butler, PA
> 
> 
> "NES" wrote:
> 
> > For the past week I've been able to enter the current date into a DB sub form 
> > field with formatted field using Ctrl = ; but now it's not working properly. 
> > Instead of entering the date, it moves the cursor to the center of the 
> > formatted field, and inserts nothing. I'm wondering what could have changed. 
> > 
> > I went directly to the sub form deleted the formatting, then redid it. But 
> > it's still not working even there in the sub form alone.
> > 
> > My sincere thanks for any help you may offer.
> > -- 
> > Norm Shimmel
> > Butler, PA

On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 01:03:00 -0800, NES <NES@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Strange that I should reply to my own message. But I was just surprised to 
>find this message posted in "Eggheadcafe.com".
>

Eggheadcafe is just one of many websites which provide their own interface to
the public NNTP newsgroups (originally hosted at Microsoft but propagated to
any USENET or web server which cares to include them).

             John W. Vinson [MVP]

On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 03:48:01 -0800, NES <NES@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>The problem goes away if I remove the input mask 99/99/0000;0;_
>
>Are the two not compatible?  Can someone duplicate this problem?

This is just one of many reasons to avoid input masks for dates.

             John W. Vinson [MVP]

Ok, I understand. Thank you.
-- 
Norm Shimmel
Butler, PA


"John W. Vinson" wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 01:03:00 -0800, NES <NES@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> 
> >Strange that I should reply to my own message. But I was just surprised to 
> >find this message posted in "Eggheadcafe.com".
> >
> 
> Eggheadcafe is just one of many websites which provide their own interface to
> the public NNTP newsgroups (originally hosted at Microsoft but propagated to
> any USENET or web server which cares to include them).
> 
>              John W. Vinson [MVP]
>