>thnks all. that pretty answers my question.
>for clarification it is a .dbf file and when trying to modify the structure (using table designer) i noticed that i could
>not access the option on the right hand side under display it reads 'format' then ''input mask''.
>seemed odd to me.
>
>k
If this is not part of DBC, most of these options are not available (they only available for tables which are part of the database).
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
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