>>Sorry but I don't understand VFP documentation in this matter. Please somebody help.
>>I have a field in which a date should be entered. I want that field being a text field that'll convert to date afterwards, and I want the user to enter the last two digits of the year only.
>>First problem: I set the Input mask to ##/##/19## so that the user doesn't have to enter the whole year, but the field only displays / /1 (the 9 is missing) ??
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>Don't forget to initially set .Value to a date - perhaps the empty date, which you specify as {}.
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>Hilmar.
Oh, and please give your messages more meaningful names: related to the topic. For example, "dates in textboxes" might be appropriate in this case.
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