To take a different route, you can use Stephen's calendar control, which IMO
has a number of advantages to the built-in control. For one, it's not an
ActiveX control so you don't have to worry about all of the versioning
problems that go along with it, and for two it's easily programmable to have
one date pick fill six dates, or to use the same class throughout a form
regardless of the number of controls you want to use it on.
I'm not sure what you mean by "building from scratch", but I use this
calendar across multiple fields in a few different applications and have
found it quite friendly.
Go to
www.lebans.com and look for the calendar, or you can probably google
"Lebans Calendar" and return a hit to the site.
hth
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Jack Leach
www.tristatemachine.com
"I haven''t failed, I''ve found ten thousand ways that don''t work."
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