Ted,
Thanks for your suggestions. Although workarounds are fine, I have a large number of date fields which would all require fixing to make them work as I would like them too. Unfortunately, I am now also experiencing similar issues with regular drop down fields. The movement of the cursur after entries seems to be almost random, jumping all over my screen, so fixing them as well would be quite a job. Moreover, randomness in programmes tends to make me rather nervous. I guess my real question is are these things all working as the designers intended, and if not, when will they be addressed?
thanks again,
Rolf