Many developers don't fully understand the difference between the InputMask and the Format property. I still get stuff confused with those 2 props.

I think it helps to think of an InputMask as a stencil that you would use to spray paint your street number on the curb by your house. Once you have painted [entered] the numbers, you remove [do not save] the stencil [mask]. All that remains are the numbers [data]. Now the Format of the street number would be represented by a 9 for each number needed.

>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 >
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>Michelle
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>>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.