When you put a textbox on the form, set it's Maxlength property to 6. Of course, if the textbox is bound to a field in a table, and the field is six characters wide, then this is unnecessary.

>if you are using @... get try placing at the picture option "XXXXXXX"
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> @ 1,1 get MyVar PICTURE [XXXXXX]
> read
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>Julius