Andrew:

OK, I see that a right-click presents an option to pop a calendar. And now that I see the calendar, I think my earlier comment was wrong. I was toggling back and forth between the Cloud and my local install so the login dialogue I mentioned must have been local.

Other:
-The ExcelDirect button results in "Failed to connect to Excel". I tried both GL and IN.
-I printed to my local printer successfully. I noticed that I don't have the same printer options (ie. draft, 2 per page etc). I expect that is a result of the fact that the Cloud version can only have generic printer drivers?