>>not a good day for me, I should know this.......But it's late and I'm tired and this is the only time-of-day I have available to donate my programming skills (such as they are) to the synagogue so...............
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>>Given a textbox with a numeric value.......what property do I set to what value so that the textbox will display BLANK when zero?
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>>Thanks...........Rich
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>Try with the format 'Z' or something, but I think it doesn't work for integers. At least I remember running into some problems there, but don't recall details.

Actually, that was what I was trying. The problem seems to be that (from the Wiki topic on Format) that "Displays the value as blank if it is 0, except when the control has focus" and this field is given focus when the page activates.

Thanks for the responses. I'll live with it the way it is