Look into the Files section here on the UT. I *think* it was Jim Booth who posted a solution to this problem.

>How do I force a user to enter a 4 digit year. I have looked at SET CENTURY TO n ROLLOVER n command and have created a table with a date field. But the user can still enter a 2 digit year and then the SET CENT command comes into effect.
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>I want to FORCE the user to enter 4 digits as the year!
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>This has to be in code as OCX's are not stable enough in VFP for me.
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>Thanks
>Bernard