You only need a 10 character field. Create a textbox class for phone numbers. In the Format property put KR In the Input mask property put (999) 999-9999 Since you have R in the format property, the parens, space and dash will not be saved with the data in the phone number fields.

>Forgot to add two things:
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>1) default the area code in the form (2 textbox, RIGHT(hphone,3) and LEFT(hphone,7))
>2) must accept numbers, no "800-CALLBOB" or "800-CALLBOBBY"
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>Chuck
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>>>>hphone C(10)