Hi,

In addition to Nick's reply - put a 'K' in the format field to select on entry...

Best,
Viv

>Can anybody help me please? Im going round the bend!!
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>I have a textbox on a form for which I only want the user to enter numbers. In addition to this I want to limit the users to only entering a maximum of 10 numbers. Therefore I have set the input max to ##########. This works fine but when the users loses focus on this control I want to pad left of the number they have typed in with zero's.
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>Therefore if the user types in 12345 then when they lose focus I want the system to put in 0000012345. I also want this field to be the first field when editing and the contents of the field to be highlighted.
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>In the lost focus event I have tried:
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>thisform.text1.value = PADL(thisform.text1.value,10,'0')
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>I know im being stupid but I cant seem to move forward!
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>Thanks