Today's date as a defalut date field in Access form.

Just put it as default value in the text box on the form or in the field of the underlying table.
Here is on the form

Here is on the table

I got this to work. However, as I filter through records the value dis-appears.

what do you mean ?
This is a default value for New Records

I have a table that is being filed in using a form. However, the form has a filter built into it where you can select records. When the form opens it is filled in. However, once you select a different record in the filter window then it does not give a default value.

I know that is hard to follow.

How about defaulting the underlying field on the table that is used as recordset

I know that is hard to follow.

Indeed.

"Default" values pop-in when a new record is generated, but not an existing record.  If you want to pop-in today's date in an empty control (textbox?), then you can put code in the form's Current() event to check what's in the textbox and enter todays date if it is empty.  The process below covers a textbox that has a date data type control source:

Private Sub Form_Current()
    If Me.txtTextbox Is Null Then
        Me.txtTextbox = Date
    End If
End Sub

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