> >Wait a minute - I've just put a ! into the textbox.format property (not > >the InputMask) and it simply works as it always did. (Vfp5.0) Though, it > > You're quite right... > This wasn't my statement about '!' -- it still works fine for me too in > vfp5. But I thought the original question was how to customize keypress > events, not just convert lower alpha to upper?...(oh, well...) I thought it was what the original question was about, and that the KeyPress was just a workaround... anyway, who can keep some hundred threads in just one buff... brain?