Oops. Funny, I was actually testing with the PROPER and then, for some reason, changed to the '!'. Hmmm.. More coffee needed I think :)

>>You can do this yourself. Subclass the textbox and in the Init Event change the inputmask to be '!'+REPLICATE('X',This.MaxLength-1). You could also calculate it from the length of the controlsource field.
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>This will only upper the first character typed, not the first character of each word. He should use the PROPER() function.