>But cetin i have not bounded that control so i don't think that should be fine.
>Isn't there anything in VFP for datetime format like the one for British Date formats ie 'e'.
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>Shashi
Shashi,
If it were bound then value you put there would be nonsense and it would be set to controlsource.value. As Cristof warned it's a datetime value (not just date) so would be {/:} . It doesn't make it to be bound to somewhere just acts like "e" format for British date and validates entered data as datetime. If you want it like a plain text with datetime format (no validation as datetime) set inputmask to "99/99/9999 99:99:99" (which is like controls' text property). Other than that I don't know a special format code for datetime.
Cetin