>I want to make sure some enters at least 9 characters in the SSnumber field. What do I put in the firld valadatiuon rule?
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>I have the following set format set to 999999999 and input mask set to 999-99-9999.

Clear Format property. It controls behavior of whole textbox not position by position. For example, one '!' there means that all characters entered in the textbox will be converted to uppercase. Put 'R' there so none-formating characters specified in the InputMask will not be saved. for example '123-45-6789' will be saved as '123456789'. Put following code into Valid of the textbox

IF LEN(ALLTRIM(This.Value)) <> 9
  RETURN .F.
ENDIF