Subtract months from Date data type

[Steve2276]

I am using the Date data type and am using the following code:

'Calculate delete date
Select Case RetainUnit
Case "Days"
dtmDeleteDate = Now() - RetainNumber
Case "Weeks"
dtmDeleteDate = Now() - (RetainNumber * 7)
Case "Months"
'dtmDeleteDate = Now() - ??????
End Select

The only thing is that the Date data type only seems to lend itself to maths involving whole days (integers) or hours (fractions - ie 1/24 = 1 hour).
My question is, how can I subtract 1 month. And I don't want to subtract 30 days or whatever. So if I've got 21/05/02, then subtracting 1 month would give 21/04/02. And it works regardless of days in the month (28/29/30/31).
Is there another data type that I should be using; or a function that I've yet to discover??
Thanks in anticipation.

[darre1]

use the DateAdd function

look it up in MSDN library

i.e.

myDate = DateAdd(-1,"m",myDate)

would subtract 1 month from myDate

Good Luck

[Steve2276]

Thanks.

I actually found DateAdd in MSDN about a minute after I'd posted the thread!! -oops!
Mind you MSDN is such a pain to navigate at times, that it could have taken me ages to get anywhere!

[darre1]

yeah, and if you ever use the Search facility you nearly always get the maximum 500 matching search results to skim through