>>>>>Hi everybody,
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>>>>>I could not find this info in Help on Format, though I remember, I saw it there. I have a field Status in a table, which could be either A or I (Active/Inactive). I don't want to use combobox for this, so I need to restict textbox values. I can do it in KeyPress event, but I want something simpler...
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>>>>>Could you please help me?
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks in advance.
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>>>>Put '@M' in the Format property and the list of values separated by commas into InputMask property
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>>>Thanks, it works, however, I can not delete value. Also M Included for backward compatibility and not documented.
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>>If the only valid choices are "A" or "I", why would you need to delete the value?
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>When I want to change from A to I, from user's point of view I have to delete "A" and type "I". However, I can not delete, I can only type "I", which is not 100% intuitive. Anyway, I can live with this.
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>Also I tried to use KeyPress event already, but it didn't work.

Nadya,
User need not to delete 'Active' to input 'Inactive'. Pressing A and I works or even spacebar loops through availabale items. If you want to support deletion (empty value) then add a space to input values list :
Format = 'M'
Inputmask = ' ,Active,Inactive'

It says backward compatible but you know some backward compataible things have no current counterpart yet :)
Cetin