>Is there a way to make typed charactors in a textbox automatically convert to uppercase other than CapsLock(.T.)?

Along with the "!"'s, you can put:

lnSel = this.selstart
this.value = upper(this.value)
this.selstart = lnSel

In the interactive change in the textbox. The reason I might do this instead of teh format property is if you suddenly want to swiych to Proper() or lower()