Hi John

use Alt+Enter instead of Enter and this will insert a line feed.

With regard to dates, putting =TODAY() in a cell will insert today's
date, but this will automatically refresh it self to the next each time
the file is opened on successive days.
Typing Ctrl +;  (that's Control plus semicolon) will insert today's date
into a cell, but in a fixed manner that will not refresh itself.

Entering a date into a cell e.g. enter in A1  05/09/2006 you can in
another cell on your form enter
=A1+1
and this will give 06/09/2006