>>No this is VFP 6
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>OK, then if you set the Text1.Century property to 0 for the column and also set the .ColumnX.Sparse property to .F., you should see what you want.

I seem to have the problem, the other way 'round. I have the century property as 1 as well as "set century on" as the default in tools/options. In the database it shows 4 year format but 2 year format in the grid...