Jimmy,

I'm not sure what you're trying to do. If you're trying to use a BROWSE command for data entry than it's bad idea.

>Itried putting what you said in the validation box but it keeps erroring out. I then tried this and it let me save it
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>IIF(LEN(ssnumber)<>9,.F.,.T.) but when I reopen it it chages to this
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>IIF(LEN(ssnumber)#9,.F.,.T.) and I can enter a 5 number ssnumber in the browse.
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>Anyideas, the field is a character field?