You should be able to keep your input mask at XXXX to accept characters if you need to.
>=Replicate("0",4)
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>Hey...this worked! using an input mask of 9999
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>Many thanks.
Tim Westmoreland
Software Engineer
Skyline Technologies, Inc.
"Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future." - Ayn Rand, Russian-born author (1905-1982).