Hi Nagarajan,
Thank you for your reply. I looked at the thread, it covers issues with the combo box. I am aware of the limitations of the combo box for filtering queries (only 499 values displayed), and would prefer NOT to use the combo-box. The list displayed covers dates through early 2006, virtually useless for my users, and they have lost the ability to enter a date by typing it. I can, however, paste text (i.e. 1/1/2014) into the field.
I cannot type directly into a date filter field in this version of SAP, but I could type into the field in previous versions.
Mike