You can insert the current date on a form or report by clicking Date and Time on the Insert menu. This command creates a text box on a form or report and sets the ControlSource property of the text box to an expression containing the Date function. This expression will vary according to the format you have chosen to display the date. This command is available only in form Design view and report Design view.
You can also use the Date function in a query expression or in a macro. However, you must include the parentheses after the function when you use it anywhere other than a Visual Basic module, as in the expression Date().