Wow, you not only beat me to it, you added all sorts of other information that one could find by reading the help file. < g,d&r >

Michelle

>Put KRA! in the Format property. The K is for SelectOnEntry [optional], the R means to not save the mask characters to the ControlSource field [also optional]. In the InputMask, put (xxx) xxx-xxxx This is a typical phone number format, but this is only an example. The x's allow any input, but because the format property also has A and !, the control will only accept characters and will convert to uppercase.