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:-) Thanks for all the help Hilary. I've only stuck one toe into this pool, but it looks exciting. With your earlier posts I have a working solution as you described. I'm considering this resolved.

Yes, it is the date picker. This is the image I receive in my Outlook email.

My second message did not go through due to some moderator filter, so I'm sending it again. Here is the after image.

Here is the image after submission.

Since I haven't figured out how to make two attachments, I will just reply twice. Attached here is the before submission image.

I find that if I copy the rule to one or more of the other fields, they will format correctly. It must just be the picker that I cannot effectively change. Thank you for your help Hilary. I would not have thought to even try sending the formatting to another field until you shared your example. If, you come up with a way to change the picker, ...

No. Sorry. You caught me. I meant to put less than instead of equals.

I guess I need to pay more attention to my spelling and grammer  :-) The file you sent works fine, although when I open it in the developer, it gives me an error stating "Date calculations are not supported". I'm using Info 2010, but saving as a 2007 so that all can use it here. I guess it is possible my issue lies ...

Thanks for the response, Hilary.  Lame me does not know, off the top of my head, how to do that with a date picker (the requested control). I follow what you meant, but I have been able to use it in the preview and it all works fine. It just doesn't make it to the receiveing end with th formatting. Any further thoughts?

I am new to InfoPath. I have a simple conditional format that will take the date from a date picker and turn the background to red and the text to white when it is more than a few days past. I can see the formatting works as I fill out the form, but after submission, it the formatting is not there for the recipient. I'm using this formula ...