Boban

Why dont you on the form.getfocus put the following thisform.text1.value={}
(or whatever text number you are using)

Alternatively you can specify a memory variable for this text box and store {} in the variable

Colin

>I have a TextBox control in Form.
>Format property of TextBox control is set to D (TextBox.Format = D) which is Date.
>
>When I type in some date into TextBox control and I check VARTYPE of that value it returns "C" (VARTYPE(TextBox.Value)="C").
>I expected to return "D" instead of "C".
>
>Why is that happening?