Welcome to VFP and UT, Smitha,

In the VALUE property of the textbox put { } That's curly braces with a space between them. Alternatively if the textbox is bound to a date field then it will automatically be in date format.

HTH
Barbara

>I am beginner in this field.
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>I have a textbox in the form, in my word document, which I created using Visual Basic editor. I want to give a date type format for that text field(like input mask in Visual Foxpro), as the document will be accepting dates through this field. But I don't know how to acconmplish this.
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>Can anybody help...