Hello Ira and others, I too have been considering requesting more control of the AD addition to the date with text. I have some user defined events for which I use the date space to enter a an age, ie 34yrs 6 mo, and this ends up with AD appended which looks out of place. Therefore I too request the ability to turn off the BC/AD designation, BUT not at the expense of loosing the larger screen. From: "Michael CALDER" <mcalder@tpgi.com.au> Subject: Dates Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 18:34:52 +1100 G'day Ira et al, I am seem to have a minor annoyance in trying to use "non-standard" dates in events. Not worrying about the grammar it is the "AD" that is the problem. Any "word" attached to a date in the "date window" will trigger the addition of AD (or you can choose BC). Can we have a "blank" option? so that we can have dates like "early 1856" "mid 1950s" or even a bigger field to add "in the spring of 1991" <VBG>? HURU Mike