In message <CMEFJIGMPKLPELNONILDMECADHAA.mfwebb2005@btinternet.com>, Malcolm Webb <mfwebb2005@btinternet.com> writes: >If I know an event happened in the 3rd quarter of a year I just input the >date as "Q3 1875" (without the quotes) and accept that it will come up in >red and tell me the date is invalid. All that means is that the date format >does not comply with the format I have chosen. The date actually prints as And isn't recognised as a date in calculations and similar. >Q3 1875 on all the reports I have used, so I don't see a problem. [] That would be nice (I'd tend to say 1875Q3, but whatever); I'll give it thought. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf "I do not feel obliged to believe that the God who endowed me with sense, reason, and intellect intends me to forego their use". - Gallileo Gallilei