>Terry,
>I would probably go for the work around. It's a one liner and respects the setting of inputmask. In any case I would use the assign method to handle the issue (encapsulation). Otherwise you have to "remember" to use a work around whenever you assign a value to the textbox.
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>On the same subject, if the field is bound to a table, VFP seems to respect the precision of the field.
- VFP (also) respects the precision of a field assigned as a value..
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