Help needed in entering just the year or jus month and year in a date field

[Raynewp]

I have a database in which I have fields for date of birth and death date. The problem is that for some members only the year, or the month and year is known for either or both of these fields. The fields are Date fields and are formatted as dd-mmm-yyyy with an input mask of: 00\->L Is there a way I can enter just the year, or the year and the month. Every time I try, I get an error message that forces me to enter the complete information, e.g. 01-Jan-1979. If I leave the date or the month blank, I get the error message. Is there a workaround for this situation?

[TonyES]

Are you using a form to enter these dates?? If so, remove input masks from both the form and the table definition for that field. In my limited testing, I was able to enter dates in multiple different formats into a Date/Time field formatted as dd-mmm-yyyy with no input masks and have them display in the proper way. When I entered only a mm/yyyy combination it assumed the first of that month.....

[Raynewp]

Great, you saved lot of time for me.