>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).