Trying to set up the user to be able to input a date in the format of DD-MM-YYYY instead of the month first, but I do not see how to go about doing that. Is this possible in Access? I have read posts on how input masks are not a good way to go about it, to just set it up as a Short Date and let the user enter in the values as he pleases, but how about when the date for January 3rd is entered in as 03-01-2008? How does access know that we are meaning January 3rd and not March 1st? How can we tell access that the first value is the day value and not the month value when entering data?