I'm confused, Roy! You appear to be trying to set a default date to your
Date/Time picker, but you're trying to assign a date to a textbox control. If,
in fact, you're trying to set a value to the date picker, try this, where
YourDatePickerName
is the actual name of your date picker.
Private Sub Form_Load()
Me.YourDatePickerName ="07/01/2005"
End Sub

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