Hey Joseph, you can use that field for any purpose.  I personally use that field for when that Entity(Customer or Business) became my client, not necessarily the date I put them in the database.

Hi Pete:

Thank you for letting me know.  Really appreciate it.  I love watching the lessons I get from Richard and techhelp videos and also the core lessons when he builds onto the ABCD database.

Not a problem.  We are all here to learn.  I love watching and learning from Richard, too.  My only advice, from experience, don't jump around.  Do courses in order.   Also, remember ABCD is not a teaching course.

Thanx for letting me know pete.  I've watching the courses in the order I get the.  I never jump ahead.  Thanx to to his lessons and techhelp videos.  I love Access.  My favoritr database program.

I know that the ABCD database is not a teaching course.  Thanx for lettingbme know that.  I hear Richsrd day in the vidros few times.

Hi Pete:

I have question for you.  I have the date created field in my contact database in my form and I want to be able to have the date show in the field like what Richard has in the ABCD database.  I'm not sure if I have somethig set right.  How can i have the date show in the date created field so when i enter a new record the date will already be there.

Assuming you mean the default value? You can set that to Date() and it will always be the current date when setting a new record.

Hi Pete:

    So I just have to set the default Value to Date.  I will let you know.  I know i needed default value.  Wasn't sure if was date or what i had to put.  I will do that.  I will let you know.

Hi Pete:

I'm in the form in my contact database and i clicked on the created date field and went to the data tab and put in date for the default value and not sure why not working.

Hi Pete:

It worked.  I clicked on new record and worked.  Thank you.  I put the date as default value.  Thank you.

I'm not Pete but I'm glad you got it figured out :P.

HI Adam.  Yes, thank you glad I figured it out.  I'm learning a lot in Access.  I love learning the lessons that i get from Richard and also watching the techhelp videos.  I will never give up learning.  I love learning different things in Access.