Dave, my apologies. The only grid with set century off is also read-only, which, of course, stays with a 2-digit year. I should have checked my code before spouting off.

Sorry to waste your time
Barbara

>Hmmm..
>Well this will be worth getting to the bottom of. No matter what I do I can't avoid the full century showing in the currently highlighted cell of a grid. Ditto in a text box. I've played with SET CENTURY, SET STRICTDATE, SET DATE ... etc. and I've never seen VFP display only the last two digits of the year while in edit mode.
>Dave