>The title almost says it all...I have a textbox bound to a character field in a table containing times, like "12:00". So, I bind a textbox to this field with an input mask of "99:99" (why make the user type a colon?). Everything works great. But now I have decided that instead of storing just "1200" in the database (which it does since the colon is not part of the textbox's Value property) I would like to store the colon for using the data later (instead of always having to TRASFORM() it before use.

Joe,
you must have 'R' in format property or something like that
which makes your textbox not save extra characters to the field
- the default behaviour is to save everything

Arnon