Hi Steve,
Bob's right. When printing the statement from the customer inquiry, the default date is the last statement date, on the expectation that you would want to send the customer a statement that matches the last one sent. Also, if you want to send a statement as of "today", then changing the date is a simple down-arrow, home, enter sequence in the date field.
Changing a default of "today" to the last statement date would be much more difficult and require looking up the last statement date for the customer.
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Andrew Bates