>>For a couple of reasons, the most important being that the ! is ignored if you paste text.
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>It works for me
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>loForm		= Createobject('myForm')
>loForm.Show(1)
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>define class myForm as Form
>	add object text1 as textbox
>	add object text2 as textbox with top = 20, format = "!"
>enddefine
>

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>Pasting in lower case remains lower case in text1 but is converted to uppercase in text2

OK, then I remember wrong. But there are other reasons which I am to tired to remember, according to Naomi. :-))