>You gave me instruction to enter "999%" into the input mask field and that worked out great. You also instructed me to set my data type to CHARACTER, which I did.

The code that I offered was really meant for if you wanted to store your data as numeric, but display it with "%". To do this, you have to convert it to character before displaying, and convert it back to numeric before storing it to the table.


>In addition, you gave me code to enter into a valid and refresh method. I assume that is once I get to creating forms.

Yup. But understand, that displaying a "%" isn't really a data issue, it's a display, or interface issue. If the information that you are storing really is a percentage, than it should be stored as a numeric field, and not a character. I only offered the solution of converting to character as a display solution.


>I have an unrelated question I would like to ask as well.
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>When do I use the compile button? Is that something I have to do along the journey, or once I get to the completion of my application? If you have any advice on that I would sure appreciate it!

You only need to compile the project when you are making your .exe, .app, or when you want to rebuild. It is not necessary as an incremental process.