Kyle,
Thank you for the quick reply. I found this menu item before I posted my question, but it was not clear to me if it changed the "size" of the *database* field (i.e., how information it can hold) or if it affected the display size of the field on the form. It is a date field; it holds the correct amount of information; the box on the screen is just too small to display the full day-month-year without truncating the year. The warning before running that change size utility talks about keeping the fields shorter to conserve disk space. That seems to indicate that it is changing the size of the database field, which is not the problem. The width of the box on the screen needs to be wider.
73, Bart