Type mismatch on Date

[enonod]

Can somebody please say why this (from the Help File)...

Sub Main
MsgBox "Today is " & Date & "."
End Sub

...fails with 'Type mismatch.

Thank you

[Valeri Vlassov]

It works well for me:

Sub Main
MsgBox "Today is " & Date & "."
End Sub

please try simply:
MsgBox Date

does it work?

[enonod]

Thank you Valeri, sorry for the delay due to my being indisposed.
I tried your suggestion

Sub Main
MsgBox Date
End Sub

and oddly still get error on line 2: Type mismatch
Perhaps there is some kind of setting in Basicmaker causing this.

[martin-k]

Works just fine here in 32 and 64 bits. Are you running the current revision 974?

[enonod]

Thank you for your reply. Yes 974.0203 64bit
Really baffled
EDIT
just tried the following from another post and get the same on line 6

Dim pm as Object
Set pm = CreateObject("PlanMaker.Application")
pm.Application.Visible = True
pm.Workbooks.Add

pm.ActiveSheet.Range("A1:A1").Item(1, 1).Value = date

dateFromCell = pm.ActiveSheet.Range("A1:A1").Item(1, 1).Value
MsgBox "dateFromCell is " & dateFromCell

Set pm = Nothing