is there a way to say I enter a date on the date field in a form, and when I hit the report button, this report will grab that data from the date field and include it to the report. thank you in advance.

Set the control source of the text box on your report to =Forms!NameofForm!Nameoftxtbox, substituting your actual form name and name of text box that holds the date.

The form will have to remain open when the report runs.

thanks for the help !!! :) it works.......oh yeah...