No, a monk can't use their Martial Arts feature with improvised weapons. Monk weapons are:


  short swords and any simple melee weapons that don’t have the two-handed or heavy property.


Unfortunately, simple melee weapons are weapons that are in the "Simple Melee Weapons" category on the weapons table, and improvised weapons aren't present there. (Otherwise everyone who was proficient with simple melee weapons would be proficient with improvised weapons.)

So improvised weapons aren't simple melee weapons, and therefore they aren't monk weapons either and can't be used with Martial Arts.

Would a monk with the tavern brawler feat have improvised weapons count as monk weapons?
I am designing my first database from the ground up and I have learned a lot in the last few weeks. One thing that has been eating at me though is that on my login page I have a simple unbound text box with its control source as =Date(). 

This works perfectly well on the computer I use most days, but any other computer in the facility I am working out of displays #NAME? instead of the date. 

I have tried changing to =Now() and it works fine on all computers. Apparently only =Date() has issues. If the fields control source is changed back to =Date() I am informed that The function you entered can't be used in this expression.

I have checked the MS-Access versions and tried on a machines with and without access. 

I really need Date() to work because it is used elsewhere in more vital areas of my code and I may not be able to use Now() in its place. Any ideas as to why this may not work on any PC besides my own?
