>>>What version of VFP?
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>>This happens in VFP6SP3 too, if I understand right: When the TextBox has focus, you see the whole data, when it doesn't, you only get the last two numbers of the year. Do I understand right Christopher?
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>No the opposite. When the form comes up you have all 4 digits...when you work in it it snaps to 2
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>Chris

Set the Century property of the textbox to .T.