Hi Scott,

You can add an 'own help' display to the formfield's properties, but that only displays on Word's status bar. Not especially noticeable. If you format the formfield as a date type and specify DD/MM formatting, the user will get an error message if they exit the formfield with anything else input. With that formatting, however, a 'DD/MM' default is not possible. It is possible if you format the field as a plain text field, but then you lose the ability to validate the data entry - unless you attach an 'on exit' macro to the formfield to do that work for you.

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Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]